Cheryl Carolus
Cheryl Carolus | |
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South African High Commissioner to the United Kingdom | |
In office 2 March 1998 – 1 November 2001 | |
President | Nelson Mandela Thabo Mbeki |
Preceded by | Mendi Msimang |
Succeeded by | Lindiwe Mabuza |
Personal details | |
Born | Silvertown, Cape Town, South Africa | 27 May 1958
Political party | African National Congress |
Alma mater | University of the Western Cape |
Cheryl Carolus (born 27 May 1958) is a South African politician. She was born in Silvertown, on the Cape Flats, Cape Town. Carolus became involved in politics while still at school and became an activist after joining the United Democratic Front in 1983. In May 1990, Carolus was elected to be part of the African National Congress' delegation which held talks with the apartheid government and in July 1991, she was elected to the ANC's National Executive Committee. She was married to Graeme Bloch, who died in 2021.
In 1998, she became South Africa's
Carolus is a member of the Executive Committee of the International Crisis Group.[1] In 2015, she was a Trustee of the British Museum.[2]
On 5 May 2018, the bodies of her husband's (Graeme Bloch) parents were discovered in Cape Town. They had been tied up and murdered.[3]
References
- ^ ICG, Crisis Group's Board of Trustees
- ^ The British Museum Trustees, British Museum, accessed 31 March 2015
- ^ Mngadi, Mxolisi (5 May 2018). "Pensioners tied up and killed: Police probing murders of Graeme Bloch's parents". News24. Retrieved 5 May 2018.
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