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Ministry of Education
Private Bag X9034
Cape Town, SOUTH AFRICA
Private Bag X603
Pretoria, SOUTH AFRICA
Tel: +27 (21) 4657350; +27 (12) 326 0126
Fax: +27 (21) 4614788; +27 (12) 323 5989
E-mail: Asmal.K@educ.pwv.gov.za
Kader Asmal is Minister for Education in the South African Government. Between 1994 and
1999 he was Minister of Water Affairs and Forestry. He chairs the National Conventional
Arms Control Committee of the Cabinet, the African National Congress Disciplinary
Committee; the National Assembly's Ethics Sub-Committee and the Parliamentary Committee on Members' Interests.
He was born in Stanger, Natal, and qualified as a school teacher at the Springfield Teachers' Training College, Durban. His academic qualifications are: B.A. (UNISA), LL.B. and LL.M. (London School of Economics, London University) and M.A. (Dublin). In 1960, he was a Law Scholar at the London School of Economics. He is also a barrister of Lincoln's Inn, London and King's Inns, Dublin; and an advocate of the Cape Bar in South Africa. He has been awarded honorary Doctorates by the Queen's University of Belfast in 1996, in 1997 by Rhodes University, Grahamstown, and in 1998 by Trinity College Dublin and in 1999 by the university
of Cape Town. He has also been awarded an Honorary Fellowship by the London School of Economics and Politics.
In 1983 he was awarded the UNESCO Prize for the teaching and development of human rights. He was awarded the Gold Medal for 1996 by the World Wide Fund for Nature - SA, for conservation; and in 1997 the Agfa Award for Conservation and the Environment and in
1997, the Rector's Medal by the University of Chile. He was made an Honorary Citizen of Ladysmith - Emnambithi in 1997.
He returned from exile in 1990. While in exile, he was a law teacher at Trinity College Dublin for 27 years, specialising in human rights, labour and international law and was Dean of the Faculty of Arts from 1980 - 1986. From 1990 to 1994 he was Professor of Human Rights at the University of the Western Cape; and in 1994 on joining the Cabinet, he was given the
permanent status of Professor in the University.
He was a founder of the British Anti-Apartheid Movement in London and a founder of the Irish Anti-Apartheid Movement in 1963 and subsequently chairperson until 1991. He was Vice-President of the International Defence and Aid Fund for Southern Africa from 1968 to 1982. From 1976 to 1990 he was President of the Irish Council for Civil Liberties.
He was a member of the Constitutional Committee of the African National Congress since its establishment in 1986 and in 1991 was elected to the National Executive Committee of the. ANC. In July 1992, he was appointed to the ANC's National Commission for the Emancipation of Women.
He served as a delegate to Working Group I of CODESA, (the Convention for a Democratic South Africa) in 1992 and as a member of the negotiating team of the ANC at the
Multi-Party Negotiating Forum in 1993. He was elected to the National Assembly on the ANC's National List in May 1994.
He is a vice-president of the African Association of International Law, member of the Board of Sponsors of the South African Institute
for Crime Prevention and Rehabilitation of Offenders, member of the Board of Control, Centre for Applied Legal Studies at Wits, and a member of various South African and international associations.
In 1992, he was appointed to the Council of the University of the North and subsequently elected as its chairperson, which post he held till 1995. In the 70s and 80s he acted as
Rapporteur of various United Nations and non-governmental conferences on South Africa, and participated in a number of international commissions of inquiry on human rights issues.
In 1995 he was appointed a Vice-President of the Independent World Commission on the Oceans, headed by President Mario Scares of Portugal. In 1997 he was appointed by the World Conservation Union and the World Bank to chair a new body, the World Commission on Dams, the first ever independent review of the cost and benefits of large dam projects.
He has written three books (including that co-authored with Louise Asmal and Ronald Roberts, "Reconciliation through Truth", published by David Philip and Mayibuye Books in 1996) and co-edited two others; he is the author of twenty chapters in books and over one hundred articles on legal and political aspects of apartheid, labour law, on Ireland and decolonisation. He has delivered numerous public lectures on such subjects.
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