Geraldine Fraser-Moleketi
| Geraldine Fraser-Moleketi | |
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| Minister of Public Service and Administration | |
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In office 1999–2008 |
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| Preceded by | Zola Skweyiya |
| Succeeded by | Richard Baloyi |
| Member of Parliament | |
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In office 1994–2008 |
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| Minister of Welfare and Population Development | |
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In office 1996–1999 |
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| Preceded by | Patrick McKenzie |
| Succeeded by | Position renamed |
| Deputy Minister of Welfare and Population Development | |
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In office 1995–1996 |
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| Born | 24 August 1960 |
| Political party | African National Congress, South African Communist Party |
Geraldine Joslyn Fraser-Moleketi (born 24 August 1960) is a South African politician who was Minister for the Public Service and Administration since 17 June 1999 to 25 September 2008. She was also a member of the National Executive Committee of the African National Congress until 2007.
She was born in Cape Town on 24 August 1960, the eldest of the six children of Cynthia, a factory worker, and Arthur Fraser, a teacher working at specialized schools in the Cape Peninsula.
Fraser spent her formative years with her maternal grandmother who lives in the small Klipfontein community adjacent to Cape Town’s sprawling squatter camp, Crossroads. Her outlook on life was shaped by the beliefs of her grandmother who was an active trade unionist.
Politics further impacted on her family life. Fraser was eight years old when her mother’s sister, whose husband was active in the Non-European Unity Movement, left the country to assume a life in exile. By the time she reached Standard 8 Fraser had developed a keen political awareness. At this stage she attended Livingstone High School.
Fraser-Moleketi matriculated from Livingstone High School in Claremont which had a history of providing its pupils with alternative perspective on South African history and socio-political issues. Years on apartheid on Cape Town buses, where half the bus was reserved for whites, had also sharpened her political perspective and Fraser recalls battles with white school children on municipal buses traveling to and from school. Fraser was also influenced by events in and around Cape Town, such as the bulldozing of shacks in Crossroads in the early 1970s, the 1976 school protests and the Fatti’s and Monis strike and consumer boycott. Racial tension between the Coloured and the African Communities residing in the emerging settlements were also emerging. Fraser stepped forward in an attempt to resolve these tensions.
She holds a Masters in Administration from the University of Pretoria.
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