Career/Memberships/Positions/Other Activities

Member of Parliament since 1994.
Member of both the African National Congress (ANC) and South African Communist Party (SACP) in Mozambique.
Returned to South Africa in August 1990 and worked in the Department of Economic Policy at ANC Head Office in Johannesburg.
Professor and Co-Director of Centre for Southern African Studies at University of the Western Cape 1990-1994.
Undertook policy research for ANC and Southern African Development Community (SADC) 1990-1994.
Member of the South African Ministerial delegation to World Trade Organization (WTO) in Seattle (1999), Doha (2001), Cancun (2003) and Hong Kong (2005).
Led South African Delegation to the African, Caribbean, and Pacific (ACP)-European Union.
Joint Parliamentary Assembly (JPA) since 1995-2005.
Member of the Joint Parliamentary Assembly Bureau and ACP Co-Vice President of Human Rights 2003-2005.
Member of Eminent Persons Group put in place by the Global Coalition for Africa (2003).
Member of both Central Committee and Political Bureau of the SACP.