Monday 21 January 2019

Dumisani Kumalo, South African politician and diplomat, Died at 71

Dumisani Shadrack Kumalo was born on September 16, 1947, and died on January 20, 2019.

He was a South African diplomat.

Kumalo as the Permanent Representative of South Africa to the United Nations.

Amid 1977 Kumalo was constrained into an outcast for his enemy of politically-sanctioned racial segregation exercises and looked for shelter in the United States, where he proceeded with his political movement.

As Project Director at the American Committee on Africa (ACOA) and its sister association The Africa Fund from 1979 to 1997 Kumalo assumed a key job in the preparation of U.S. sanctions against politically-sanctioned racial segregation, constructing the divestment development which prompted 28 states, 24 districts and in excess of 90 urban communities and 155 schools and colleges stripping from U.S. banks and organizations which worked with the South African government.

 Kumalo visited pretty much every state in the association, affirming before state lawmaking bodies and city committees and talking in networks and at incalculable schools and colleges.

 Before going into outcast he filled in as a political journalist for the Golden City Post, DRUM, and the Johannesburg Sunday Times.

After the finish of politically-sanctioned racial segregation, Kumalo came back to South Africa and was delegated Director of the United States Desk in the Department of Foreign Affairs in 1997.

He was in this way designated as South Africa's Permanent Representative to the United Nations; Kumalo introduced his accreditations as Permanent Representative on April 21, 1999.

Kumalo addressed the United Nations General Assembly on April 13, 2004, empowering support of the part countries of the United Nations, on the matter of the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme.

He was on the Advisory Committee of the African Activist Archive Project of the African Studies Center at Michigan State University.

 Dumisani Shadrack Kumalo passed away at 71 years old.

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