Joel Sibusiso NDEBELE

Personal

Date of Birth: 17 October 1948

Current Positions

• Premier of KwaZulu-Natal Province since 22 April 2004.
• Serves in the National Executive Committee (NEC) of the African National Congress (ANC).
• Member of the Provincial Executive Committee and the Provincial Working Committee of the ANC since (1994).
• Chairperson of the ANC in KwaZulu-Natal Province since 2002.
• Member of Provincial Executive Committee and the Provincial Working Committee of the ANC since 1994.

Academic Qualifications

• Primary school at Makhaseneni near Melmoth.
• Secondary school at Entembeni Secondary school and matriculated from Eshongwe High School (1968).
• Studied Library Science at the University of Zululand (1970 - 1972).
• Bachelor of Arts degree in International Politics and African Politics from University of South Africa (1982 - 1983).
• Bachelor of Arts honours degree with distinction in Development Administration and Politics (1985).
• Worked on Masters Dissertation on Collaboration and Politics of Participation (1987).

Career/Positions/Memberships/Other Activities

• Was actively involved in the University Christian Movement and later with the South African Students Organisation (SASO).
• Worked at the archives at a Lutheran Church Centre at Maphumulo.
• Appointed Publicity Secretary of SASO for the University of Zululand (1972).
• Worked as an Assistant Librarian at the University of the North (1973 - 1974).
• Joined the African National Congress (ANC) under ground and went into exile in Swaziland.
• Was arrested for ANC activities (May 1976) and was sentenced to ten years imprisonment (June 1977).
• Research fellow at University of Natal's Department of Town and Regional Planning.
• Regional Secretary of the ANC for Southern Natal (1990 - 1996).
• Worked as Director of the Office of Residence Administration at the University of Durban - Westville (1991 - 1994).
• Member of the National Executive Committee of the ANC.
• Served in the Education Development Trust along with Dr IF Matsepe-Casaburri (1980 - 1994).
• MEC for Transport for the united province of KwaZulu-Natal (1994).
• Founder and Chairperson of the African Renaissance Trust based in KwaZulu-Natal.

Awards/Decorations/Presentations/Bursaries

Presented with an award by COMTO for continous support of African Renaissance at the Transportation African-Renaissance Transportation (2000).