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South African Ambassador to China (Dr)

 

DATE OF BIRTH              16 August 1952

MARITAL STATUS          Married, one daughter

 

ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS

  1. MSc (Economics), Moscow Plekhanov Institute of National Economy

 

  1. PhD (Economics), Moscow Plekhanov Institute of National Economy
  1. Post-graduate Diploma in Quantitative Development Economics, University of Warwick

 

  1. MA (Social and Development Studies), University of Manchester

 

CAREER

 

Founder member and Secretary of the KwaMashu Youth Organisation (KWAYO)

Founder member and Secretary of Natal Youth Organisation (NYO)

1974-1976    Secretary-General of the National Youth Organisation (NAYO)

    1. Worked in the scholarship section of the African National Congress (ANC) in Dar-es-Salaam and Morogoro, Tanzania

 

    1. Studied at the Kharkov State University, Ukraine.
    1. Moscow Plekhanov Institute for Economic Policy. Plekhanov   

 

    1. Researcher, Department of Economic Policy (DEP) of the ANC in Lusaka, Zambia
    1. Part-time Lecturer in Economics and Commerce, National Institute for Public Administration (NIPA), Lusaka Zambia

 

    1. Post-graduate studies at the University of Warwick and the University of Manchester
    1. Research Co-ordinator and Senior Research Officer for the Macro-Education Policy Unit (MEPU) and later Senior Researcher at the Centre for Community and Labour Studies (CCLS), University of Durban-Westville

 

    1. Joined the civil service and worked as Private Secretary to the then Minister of Economic Affairs and Tourism for KwaZulu-Natal, Mr Jacob Zuma
    1. Chief Director, Department of Economic Affairs and Tourism in KwaZulu-Natal.   Responsibilities included:

 

    1. Tourism, Trade and Industry
    2. SMME Development and Internal Trade
    3. Sector and Business Development

2003-2005       Executive Director of the National Institute for Economic Policy (NIEP)

July 2005-Aug 2010   South Africa’s Ambassador to the Russian Federation

From September 2010 appointed South Africa’s Ambassador to the People’s Republic of China.

 

INVOLVEMENT IN PROFESSIONAL BODIES

  1. Co-ordinator Human Resource Sub-committee of the Provincial Alliance RDP Working Group for KwaZulu-Natal

 

    1. Chairman, Board of Trustees, Career Information Centre (CIC), Durban
    1. Board Member, Investment South Africa (ISA)

 

Board Member, KwaZulu-Natal Marketing Initiative (KMI)

              Board Member, KwaZulu-Natal Tourism Authority

2001-2004    Board Member, Participative Development Initiative (PDI)

2001-2004    Trustee, Board of Trustees BAT Centre Trust, Durban

2003-2004    Board Member (Councillor), Playhouse Company

 

PARTICIPATION IN OFFICIAL TRADE AND INVESTMENT MISSIONS

 

Dr Langa participated in numerous trade and investment missions such as:

  1. Macro-Economic Research Group (MERG) delegation to Australia to study macro-economic policies

 

  1. Inter-provincial delegation to study policies to promote small, micro and medium size enterprises (SMMEs) in Germany
  1. Attended a course on Regional Economic Development organised by the German Foundation for International Development (DSE)

 

  1. Europe-South Africa (ESA) investment promotion seminars in Bonn and Milan
  1. Training programme on investment promotion for board members of Investment South Africa (ISA) conducted by the Economic Development Board (EDB) in Singapore

 

  1. Counterpart training programme on policies to promote small business organised by the Japanese International Cooperation Agency (JICA) in Japan

 

PUBLICATIONS

  1. Agrarian Question in South Africa, in Agrarian Reform and Rural Development in Asia, Africa and Latin America.   Karl Marx University, Leipzig, 1980

 

  1. Means of Raising the Economic Effectiveness of Productive Assets of the Industrial Enterprises.   Unpublished Master’s thesis, Moscow Plekhanov Institute of National Economy.  Moscow, 1982
  1. International Capitalist Division of Labour.   New Tendencies and Peculiarities in the Contemporary Period.   Case Study:  South Africa.   Unpublished doctoral dissertation, Moscow Plekhanov Institute of National Economy, 1987

 

  1. Economics of Apartheid and the Question of Sanctions.   Department of Economics and Planning.   African National Congress.   Lusaka, June 1989
  1. Affirmative Action and Human Resource Development: Towards an Institutional Framework, in Affirmative Action and Transformation, edited by Blade Nzimande and Mpumelelo Sikhosana.   Education Policy Unit, University of Natal, 1996

 

  1. A Critical Review of Black Economic Empowerment in South Africa.   NIEP, 2004
  1. Impact of Policy Research on Economic Policy in South Africa:  The Case of the National Institute for Economic Policy (NIEP).   With Nonceba Mashalaba.   NIEP, 2004

 

  1. Participatory Budgeting in South Africa.   With Afeikhena Jerome.   NIEP, 2004

Dr Langa has also published poetry in a number of publications

HOBBIES AND INTERESTS

 

Dr Langa composes music and writes poetry during spare time.   He enjoys reading and listening to music.