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There was a great deal of resistance from the people of Huhudi, and a violent and aggressive reaction from police. The people of Huhudi joined the general opposition to these events and during the resulting aggressive reaction from the police, the teenage Ms Modise was shot at by police one day as she was walking down the road. She is currently the Chancellor of the Cape Peninsula University of Technology.
Thandi Modise was first elected to Parliament in 1994 and served as the chairperson of several parliamentary committees, such as, the Portfolio Committee on Defence, the Joint Standing Committee on Defence and the Ad Hoc Committee for ratification of the Convention to Eliminate All Forms of Discrimination against Women. When they started training she was made a section commissar.
According to Modise, it was tough because some of the men did not really want to be commanded by young women.
In 1978 she returned to South Africa to work underground as an MK operative. My favourite team was called the 'People's Club'," says Modise.
Modise has remained committed to the Huhudi community. She was also Deputy Secretary-General of the ANC from 2007 to 2012.
Modise also received political education, sitting in open classrooms, under trees, in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. She was also Chairperson of the Ad Hoc Committee for the ratification of the Convention to Eliminate all forms of Discrimination against Women in the National Assembly.
The youngest of six children, Ms Modise was born on 25 December 1959 in Huhudi Township near Vryburg in North West.
She has also been a Speaker of the North West Provincial Legislature (from 2004 to 2009) and Premier of the North West (from 2010 to 2014).
Thandi Modise was held hostage together with Minister in the Presidency Mondli Gungubele and Deputy Defence and Military Veterans Minister Thabang Makwetla at the St George's Hotel. This experience strengthened her resolve to fight apartheid.
In 1976, she slipped into Botswana to join the ANC and was later transferred to Angola where she received military training.
We do not think that any citizen, whether they had volunteered to fight for the liberation of this country, has any right to interfere with any individual."
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References
- ↑ 1.01.1Ms Thandi Ruth Modise, parliament.gov.za, Published: No Date Given, Retrieved: October 15, 2021
- ↑ 2.02.12.2Ms Thandi Ruth Modise, pa.org.za, Published: No Date Given, Retrieved: October 15, 2021
- ↑Military vets leader who took two ministers and a deputy minister hostage works for eThekwini Municipality, Daily Maverick, Published: October 15, 2021, Retrieved: October 15, 2021
- ↑Jeanette Chabalala, Ministers held hostage: 'We did not feel that our lives were in danger' - Thandi Modise, News24, Published: October 15, 2021, Retrieved: October 15, 2021
Thandi Modise
Thandi Modise, the youngest of six children, was born on 25 December 1959 in Huhudi township near Vryburg in the North West.
The ministers were rescued at 2am by the Special Task Force, which is headed by General Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi. In 1976, she escaped into Botswana to join the ANC and was later transferred to Angola where she received military training.
She was arrested in 1979, while she was four months' pregnant. Ms Modise has recalled this as a tough period, as some of the men did not want to be commanded by a young woman.
Having undergone military and political training, Ms Modise was the first woman to return to South Africa to organise the townships to fight against the apartheid regime.
Her father, Frans Modise, a railworker, was an African National Congress (ANC) activist.
The students uprising in 1976 in her area coincided with the threat that the Vryburg area in the North West would be incorporated into Bophuthatswana. She started the African National Congress Women League (ANCWL) branch in Huhudi, and is a founder member of the Lesedi Community Clinic.
She was also Deputy Secretary-General of the ANC from 2007 to 2012, among other positions.
Positions last held in government
Ms Thandi Modise was the Premier of North West province from 19 November 2010 until 20 May 2014.
Academic qualifications
- Ms Modise holds a B. Comm degree in Industrial Psychology and Economics from Unisa (1989).
She decided to leave the country and join Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) in exile.
In 1976 she slipped over the border into Botswana to join the ANC and was later transferred to Angola where she received military training at Nova-Katenga and Funda camps. Modise also enjoys watching soccer.