Nozizwe Madlala-Routledge
Nozizwe Madlala-Routledge | |
|---|---|
Madlala-Routledge at the Pentagon (October 2000) | |
| Deputy Minister of Health | |
| In office April 2004 – 8 August 2007 | |
| President | Thabo Mbeki |
| Deputy Minister of Defence | |
| In office 1999 – April 2004 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 29 June 1952 |
| Political party | African National Congress |
| Spouse | Jeremy Routledge |
| Children | 2 |
Nozizwe Charlotte Madlala-Routledge (born 29 June 1952) is a South African politician who was South Africa's Deputy Minister of Defence from 1999 to April 2004 and Deputy Minister of Health from April 2004 to August 2007. President Thabo Mbeki dismissed her from the Cabinet on 8 August 2007, after which she maintained her role as a member of parliament representing the African National Congress. On 25 September 2008, she became Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly, serving in that capacity until resigning from Parliament in early May 2009. She has been a member of the South African Communist Party since 1984.
Madlala-Routledge is well known for helping combat AIDS in South Africa, and is considered by many to have resisted government denial of the severity of the epidemic. She was also an opponent of the use of alternative medicine treatments of HIV in place of scientifically tested methods.
More recently, Madlala-Routledge served for a short period as the executive director of Inyathelo: The South African Institute for Advancement until March 2015 when she resigned following problems with the board.
In August 2021, it was announced that Madlala-Routledge would serve as the next director of the Quaker United Nations Office in Geneva. In July 2024 the Quaker United Nations Office in Geneva announced that Malala-Routledge had left on 30 June 2024 to take up new challenges.