Foreign Minister Alfred Nzo is pleased to announce the appointment of Ambassador Dumisani Shadrack Kumalo as the Permanent Representative to the South African Mission at the United Nations in New York, with effect from 5 April 1999.
Mr Kumalo (52), has been the Director of the United States Desk since joining the Department of Foreign Affairs in 1997.
Before joining the Department of Foreign Affairs, Mr Kumalo lived for more than 20 years in political exile in the United States of America where he studied journalism at Indiana University and he also worked on two US newspapers. Before leaving South Africa, he worked as a political reporter for the Golden City Post, the World Newspapers, DRUM, and the Johannesburg Sunday Times.
While in New York, he was attached to the African National Congress Mission to the United Nations where he was responsible for supporting the work of the Special Committee Against Apartheid. Mr Kumalo also served as Projects Director of the Africa Fund, an American non-governmental organisation, which coordinated the divestment movement, which led to more than 30 states, 400 universities and scores of cities divesting their pension funds from US banks and companies which were doing business with the apartheid regime.
Mr Kumalo is divorced and lives with his grown son who works as an investment banker in South Africa.
ISSUED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS
PRETORIA
30 MARCH 1999