Pallo Jordan
| Zweledinga Pallo Jordan | |
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| Minister of Arts and Culture | |
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In office 2004–2009 |
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| Minister of Environmental Affairs and Tourism | |
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In office 1996–1999 |
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| Preceded by | Dawie de Villiers |
| Succeeded by | Valli Moosa |
| Minister of Posts, Telecommunications, and Broadcasting | |
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In office 1994–1996 |
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| Personal details | |
| Born |
22 May 1942 Kroonstad, Free State |
| Citizenship | South African |
| Political party | African National Congress |
Zweledinga Pallo Jordan (born 22 May 1942, Kroonstad, Free State) is a South African politician. He was a member of the National Executive Committee of the African National Congress, and was a cabinet minister from 1994 until 2009.
Jordan is the son of the academics Archibald Campbell Jordan and Phyllis Ntantala-Jordan. Like his parents, Jordan was active in the Non-European Unity Movement against apartheid. He then joined the ANC and went into exile, studying in Britain and the United States.
Jordan worked for the ANC in London and in African states. In 1982 he narrowly escaped the detonation of the letter bomb which the apartheid regime had sent to Ruth First and killed her.
In 1985, he was elected to the ANC's National Executive Committee (NEC). He served as administrative secretary of the NEC Secretariat (1985–1988), on the NEC's Strategy and Tactics Committee as convenor (1985–1989), on the NEC's sub-committee on negotiations and the NEC's sub-committee on Constitutional Guidelines and as the Director of Information and Publicity (1989).
Jordan returned to South Africa after the unbanning of the ANC in 1990. Having already participated in the 1987 negotiations in Senegal, he was also a negotiator in the CODESA.
In 1994, he was elected to be a Member of Parliament in the National Assembly for the ANC. He became Minister of Posts, Telecommunications, and Broadcasting (1994–1996) and subsequently Minister of Environmental Affairs and Tourism (1996–1999).
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