
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).