Vusi Madonsela is a South African lawyer, social policy expert, and diplomat who is popularly known as the Permanent Representative of the Government of the Republic of South Africa to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons as well as the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of South Africa to the Kingdom of the Netherlands. Check out this article for 16 things you need to know about him.
16 Things To Know About Vusi Madonsela
Here are 16 things you need to know about Vusi Madonsela:
- His real name is Vusumuzi Madonsela but he is popularly known as Visu Madonsela
- He was born in the mid-1960s in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
- He is of Zulu ethnicity and a Christian by religion
- He weighs 80kg and is 5 feet 11 inches tall
- Although not much is known about his early life, it is at least known that he grew up in a rural and poor area, and he faced the injustices and hardships that came with the apartheid regime in South Africa
- He attended the University of KwaZulu-Natal Durban where he studied Law. In 1989, he graduated with a Bachelor of Laws (LLB) degree from the university
- After obtaining his LLB degree in 1989, he went further to take and complete his articles of clerkship at a law firm in Durban before getting admitted in 1991 as an Attorney of the High Court of South Africa
- In 1996, he acquire his Master of Laws (LLM) degree in International Law from the University of Pretoria, and in 2006 he obtained a Master of Philosophy (MPhil) degree in Social Policy and Intervention from the University of Oxford
- His decision to study law was born out of his strong passion for human rights and social justice at a very young age
- As of 2024, Vusi Madonsela is an associate fellow of the School of Social Policy and Intervention of the University of Oxford (Green-Templeton College)
- As a human rights lawyer, he has represented victims of discrimination, land dispossession, and political violence. He has also played a role in drafting laws related to justice, cooperative governance, and social development as well as drafting the interim and final constitutions of South Africa
- As a social policy expert and diplomat, he has worked in the public service and has occupied senior positions in notable departments most notably the Director-General of the Department of Social Development, Co-Chairman of the Social Sector Cluster of the Forum of South African Director-General (FOSAD), Director-General of the Department of Cooperative Governance, Director-General ọf the Department of Justice and Constitutional Development, and the Dean of Social Sector Cluster of the Forum of South African Director-General (FOSAD)
- He has also served as a member of the Bureau of the International Social Security Association, South Africa's contact person for the Millennium Development Goals, and the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of South Africa to the Kingdom of the Netherlands
- For this contribution to the public service he has been given numerous rewards. Some of them include the Order of the Baobab in Silver (by the President of South Africa), and an Honorary Doctorate of Laws (by the University of KwaZulu-Natal). He was also named among the 100 Most Influential Africans by the New African Magazine
- He is married to Nompumelelo Madonsela and they have three children together
- He has an estimated net worth of $1 million
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