Previous Executive Position: Minister of Transport

Cluster:
Economic Transformation Cluster

NEC Member: No

Home Province: KwaZulu-Natal
PCO Province: KwaZulu-Natal
Municipality: Msunduzi
Region: Moses Mabihida
Mobile: Sibongile 083 617 8925

Constituency Office

Parliamentary Career

Current:
Dr Nzimande was appointed as Minister of Higher Education, Science and Technology on 30 May 2019.

Past:
He was Minister of Transport from 27 February 2018 to 25 May 2019. Dr Bonginkosi Emmanuel "Blade" Nzimande was the Minister of Higher Education and Training in the Republic of South Africa from 26 May 2014 until 17 October 2017.

Political Career:

Past:
He was a Council member at the University of South Africa; a member of the National Deployment Committee of the ANC; chairperson of the board of trustees at the Centre for Educational Policy Development; a council member at the University of Transkei; a council member at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, and chairperson of the African National Congress Parliamentary Study Group on Education.

Education:
Dr Nzimande holds a Doctorate in Philosophy specialising in Sociology from the University of Natal. Dr Nzimande has lectured at the University of Zululand in 1985, and was a lecturer in Industrial Psychology at the University of Natal in 1987.