Zipporah Nawa

Zipporah Noisey Nawa (March 1 1945 - November 5 2007) was a South African teacher, politician and Member of Parliament.

Zipporah Nawa was born in 1945 in the rural village of Lebotlewane in Moretele, Bojanala Platinum District Municipality, North West Province. She became active in the liberation struggle in the early 1980s as a union and civic movement activist in the North West Province. A school principal for 14 years, Nawa served in the branch executive committee of the South African Democratic Teachers Union and took part in various community activities, including the anti-Bophuthatswana campaign between 1980 and 1990. When the African National Congress was unbanned together with other anti-apartheid organisation in 1990, Nawa became involved in structures of the organisation, including those of the ANC Women’s League in the North West province. She held a number of positions within both the ANC and the ANCWL, including those of secretary, deputy secretary and ex-officio of various branches of the ANCWL. Nawa also served as an executive committee member of the ANCWL Eastern Region and as a member of the Gender Commission in the North West. [ [http://www.anc.org.za/ancdocs/pr/2007/pr1109.html ANC parliamentary caucus statement on the death of Zipporah Noisey Nawa] , Office of the ANC Chief Whip, November 7, 2007.]

As a professional, she started teaching in 1993 until 2006 at Lefofa Primary School, from where she resigned as the principal to become a Member of Parliament in July 2006, where she served in the portfolio committee on Correctional Services and her constituency of Moretele. [ [http://64.233.183.104/search?q=cache:2kRPnU56IMYJ:www.parliament.gov.za/live/commonrepository/Processed/20080911/53475_1.doc+Zipporah+Noisey+Nawa&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=5 Proceedings of the National Assembly] , Hansard, November 7, 2007.] Zipporah Nawa died in 2007 and is burried at Hammanskraal cemeteries. [ [http://www.polity.org.za/article.php?a_id=122570 Family tribute to ZN Nawa] , Polity.za, November 14, 2007.]

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