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Sunday Times (Johannesburg) - August 12, 2007
Ndivhuho Mafela
Instead, she has recommended lemon and garlic. "Raw garlic and the skin of a lemon - not only do they give you a beautiful face and skin, but they also protect you from disease," she notoriously said.
Born in Durban on October 9 1940, she matriculated from Inanda Seminary in 1959. After completing a BA degree at the University of Fort Hare, Tshabalala-Msimang went into exile in 1962. She was part of a group of activists who fled the country with President Thabo Mbeki.
She went on to study medicine at the Lenin Graduate Medical Institute in Moscow, completing her studies in 1969. She also finished a master's degree in Public Health at the University of Antwerp, Belgium, in 1980.
In exile, Tshabalala-Msimang held various positions, including:
# Registrar, Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Muhumbili Hospital, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania;
# Medical Superintendent, responsible for 10 satellite clinics at the Lobatse Hospital in Botswana;
# Head of the Health Training Programme for National Liberation Movements, Organisation of African Unity/United Nations Development Programme, Tanzania; and
# Deputy Secretary in charge of human resource development and deployment for the ANC.
She has been credited with conducting several surveys of ANC communities in various countries.
These included:
# A survey on the nutritional status of ANC children in Tanzania (1981);
# A study of the prevalence of chloroquine-resistant malaria within ANC communities in Angola, Mozambique and Tanzania (1983); and
# A Mental Health Survey on ANC communities in Angola, Mozambique, Tanzania and Zambia (1986).
After the ANC won South Africa's first democratic election in 1994, she was appointed chairman of Parliament's Portfolio Committee on Health.
This proved to be a short stint as, in July 1996, she became deputy minister of Justice.
She sits on various structures of the ruling party, namely its National Executive Committee, National Working Committee and the ANC Women's League National Executive Committee.
She is married to ANC treasurer-general, Mendi Msimang, and has two daughters.
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