Siyabonga cwele biography of abraham

South African doctor and politician (born )

Siyabonga Cyprian Cwele (born 3 September ) is a South African politician who served in the cabinet of South Africa from September to May , most recently as the Minister of Home Affairs between and He was appointed as the South African Ambassador to China in December He is a member of the African National Congress (ANC) and represented the party in Parliament from to

A medical doctor by training, Cwele joined the ANC underground during apartheid in In the general election, he was elected to the KwaZulu-Natal delegation of the National Council of Provinces, where he served for a single term before joining the National Assembly.

He chaired Parliament's Joint Standing Committee on Intelligence between and

In September , he was appointed to the cabinet of President Kgalema Motlanthe, who named him as Minister of Intelligence. He remained in that office until May , though President Jacob Zuma renamed it as the Minister