Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri

Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri
Minister of Communications
In office June 1999 – 6 April 2009
President	Thabo Mbeki
Preceded by	Jay Naidoo
Succeeded by	Siphiwe Nyanda
Premier of the Free State
In office 18 December 1996 – 15 June 1999
Preceded by	Mosiuoa Lekota
Succeeded by	Winkie Direko
Personal details
Born	(1937-09-18)18 September 1937 Kroonstad
Died	Pretoria
Political party	African National Congress

Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri (18 September 1937 – 6 April 2009) was a South African politician. She was the country's Minister of Communications from 1999 until her death.

Matsepe-Casaburri was born in Kroonstad in the then Orange Free State province and completed her school career in the Natal Province. She then went on to obtain her Bachelor of Arts degree from Fort Hare University before accepting a teaching position in Natal.

Shortly afterwards Matsepe-Casaburri went into exile; she spent time in Swaziland, Zambia, the United States of America and Namibia before returning home in 1990. While in the United States she obtained her Ph.D. in Sociology from Rutgers University.

In 1993 Matsepe-Casaburri was appointed as chairperson of the South African Broadcasting Corporation. She was the first woman and first Black person to hold this position. In 1997 she resigned from this job in order to succeed Mosiuoa Lekota as Premier of the Free State Province. She was also the first woman to hold the position of a premier in South Africa.

Matsepe-Casaburri was appointed as Minister of Communications in June 1999.

She also served briefly as South African acting President in 2005 and in 2008 between resignation of Thabo Mbeki and taking of office by Kgalema Motlanthe.

External links

• Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri at Who's Who of Southern Africa
• Matsepe-Casaburri dies in hospital - Obituary

Political offices
Preceded by Mosiuoa Lekota	Premier of the Free State 18 December 1996 – 15 June 1999	Succeeded by Winkie Direko
Preceded by Jay Naidoo	Minister of Communications 1999 – 2009	Succeeded by Siphiwe Nyanda