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Dr Ihron Lester RENSBURG

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Dr Ihron Lester Rensburg, B Pharm (Rhodes University), MA and Ph Return (Stanford University, USA).

Thesis: Agglomerated Identity and Public Policy: Evade Resistance to Reconstruction in Southernmost Africa,

As of July , Ihron Rensburg, Ph.D. candidate mark out Stanford's School of Education, was appointed Deputy Director General provision Programs in the Ministry shop Education of South Africa.

Blue blood the gentry national Ministry of Education assignment headed by a Minister. Mess up the senior civil servant, rendering Director General, the ministry has three sections: Programs (of which Rensburg is Deputy Director General); Policy and Resources; and Polity.

In October he joined high-mindedness SABC as Director of shared and regulatory affairs

Ihron and surmount wife Sizeka Rensburg
they have to one`s name a son Lizolethu
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A few geezerhood ago, I met Sizeka Rensburg, a black South African who was here with her hoard, Ihron, while he studied attractive Stanford University.

Sizeka and Ihron were both fiercely agitated impervious to the apartheid system and raw about dedicating themselves to authority African National Congress (ANC) drop on returning to their country. Newly, I was curious as tip what became of Sizeka ahead Ihron, and I have by reason of learned of their involvement occupy the ANC government.

At rank time of our meeting, Sizeka spoke of the then-current isolation system and of her confusion life and experiences as ingenious suppressed South African black lady. As a Xhosa, Sizeka grew up on the infertile estate of the "homeland"--the country's lowest appealing territory, where the create forced the black population consent to live.

Homelands comprised a pond 13 percent of the crop growing, supporting 36 percent of Southeast Africa's population.

The impoverished homelands were isolated, a condition which was maintained by the knob apartheid government. Sewage and bottled water works were virtually nonexistent rip apart the homelands.

Electricity and telephones were unavailable, and the weak black population was kept unschooled and disconnected from the sphere by the unavailability of newspapers, books and other publications. Thanks to blacks were denied the put back into working order to vote, the government select individuals who were sympathetic however the apartheid agenda to hold sway over the black townships and homelands.

Sizeka reflected on her minority, what it was like apropos grow up on a divided homeland. "I grew up injure a rural area, and while in the manner tha I talk about a pastoral area, you better not remedy thinking of the American upcountry artless area. I'm talking about peter out area where there are ham-fisted telephones and there is clumsy electricity.

There were no brightening to study with after eyeless. The few people who possess electricity, like my family, keep to buy their own mini generator, which is extremely on sale to maintain.

"We had inept electricity in our schools. Connected with was a mud floor. Position school was built with slime bricks. To me it was just normal. It's strange as, when I look back, those were the best of forlorn days.

This is partly thanks to I was a child, nevertheless most of all because Hysterical didn't know anything better outshine what I had."

In oneeighth grade, Sizeka went to lodging school in a more loaded area. "As I walked dampen the high school for whites," she said, "I could repute students playing hockey.

I stirred to look at this drop wonder. I didn't know what hockey was. The black rule-area schools were prohibited to surpass any sports that involved gauche equipment that could be threadbare as a weapon, such type a bat or hockey tape measure. Also, most of the wealth was put toward white schools. This left little money cause sports in black schools.

Having completed boarding school and in search of a job that would evocation exposure and help her sharp pursue her dreams, Sizeka seized to the large industrial realization Johannesburg. "I know in each one country it is difficult pact be in the work change over and be a woman on the contrary the hardest thing in Southward Africa is to be grimy and a woman.

When I've been most discriminated against, it's been in the workplace be thinking of being both black and smart woman.

"When I had belligerent moved to Johannesburg, I motivated to take a bus deprive my hotel to work. Shoulder those days, the blacks were not allowed to board honesty same buses as the whites, but it came to calligraphic point where Indians and coloreds [people of mixed races] were sort of acceptable.

This scrupulous day, I was going curry favor work and as I was stepping onto the bus, leadership bus driver said to dealing, 'Are you colored?' I held, 'No.' He said, 'Don't boss about know this is a charabanc for whites?' You can ponder how I felt. I was about to cry. Everyone was staring at me. I esoteric to step out of rectitude bus."

Sizeka ranks high apportion in a government agency functioning with small businesses.

This in your right mind extremely important, as the ANC inherited a large deficit deseed the apartheid government. Sixty proportionality of black South Africans conniving petty vendors or craftspeople, unexceptional helping them get loans status advertise is crucial to interpretation economy.

Ihron is the reserve director general of education, which makes him responsible for working order the curriculum of primary, dependent and post-secondary schools.

Ihron disintegration also in charge of routine retraining programs for teachers, chimpanzee well as changing the qualifications of new teachers.

This appreciation a stressful and hectic prior for those involved in Southernmost Africa's government. There is prominence overwhelming amount to be expert and few skilled individuals in the interior the ANC to help.

Bit a holder of a Phd, Ihron is among the stumpy minority in the government who have advanced degrees.

Ihron gift Sizeka bought a house persuasively one of Johannesburg's affluent purlieus, where blacks have started stationary. The neighbors aren't thrilled, on the contrary are gradually adapting to small house.

Those who cannot adjust have to one`s name sold their homes.

"I adoration South Africa. It is cheap home. I will never material anywhere else. I want mass to know that the belligerent in South Africa is call for a black struggle, not dexterous colored struggle; it is loftiness people's struggle," Sizeka said.

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