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Thandi Modise served as Chairperson of the Portfolio Committee on Defence and the Joint Standing Committee on Defence.
Thandi modise biography definition
She was first elected as an MP in 1994 and has served as Speaker of the North West Provincial Legislature from 2004 to 2009 and Premier for the North West Provincial Government from 2010 to 2014. She was also Chairperson of the Ad Hoc Committee for the ratification of the Convention to Eliminate all forms of Discrimination against Women in the National Assembly.
The youngest of six children, Ms Modise was born on 25 December 1959 in Huhudi Township near Vryburg in North West.
Her formative years were shaped by her father, Mr Frans Modise, an ANC activist and railway worker.
The student uprising in 1976 coincided with the apartheid government’s move to include the Vryburg area into the “homeland” of Bophuthatswana.
The people of Huhudi joined the general opposition to these events and during the resulting aggressive reaction from the police, the teenage Ms Modise