Time is Not the Measure (ePub)

When Vusi Mavimbela left the country for exile in 1976, he was a student at the University of Zululand in Natal (today's KwaZulu-Natal). In exile, he joined the ANC and its military wing, Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK). Over the years in exile, Vusi, popularly known by his nom de guerre, Klaus Maphepha, trained in political and military science in Angola, the former Soviet Union, the former German Socialist Democratic Republic and Cuba. In the ANC and MK, he held a number of senior positions, including being a member of the Political Military Council, which was the highest ANC structure responsible for the execution of political and military warfare against the apartheid government. He also headed up political education and culture in the ANC youth section in exile.Mavimbela returned to South Africa after the unbanning of the ANC and MK in 1990 and was part of the ANC youth contingent that helped relaunch the ANC Youth League in 1991. He was also appointed by the ANC to head its intelligence structure in the province of Natal before the 1994 democratic elections.From 1994 to 1999, he was Deputy President – and later President – Thabo Mbeki's advisor in political as well as intelligence and security matters. From October 1999 to November 2004, he was Director General of the National Intelligence Agency (NIA), which was merged into the current State Security Agency (SSA) after the national elections of 2009.From 2005 to 2009, Mavimbela was the executive director of the Mvelaphanda Group, a private company headed by Tokyo Sexwale. From 2009 to 2010, he served as Director General in Jacob Zuma's presidency. Between 2011 and 2015, he was the South African Ambassador to Zimbabwe, and since 2016, he is South African Ambassador to Egypt.Mavimbela holds a political science diploma from a Marxist-Leninist college in Moscow. He also completed a Bachelor of Social Science from the University of Natal (Durban), which was later incorporated into the University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN). He

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