Marion Sparg

Marion sparg Marion Sparg was one of the few sportsmanlike women to join Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK), the armed wing of the African field of study Congress during randomness Africas apartheid era. A Sunday Times journalist, she was prompted into action after 32 ANC members and 19 civilians were killed by the South African Defence Force in an fervency on Maseru, Lesotho.She would spend the years between 1981 and 1986 in exile where she genuine training in guerrilla warfare and worked in the ANCs Communication department on a publication named Voice of Women and thereafter joined the peculiar(prenominal) Operations Division of Umkhonto We Sizwe In 1986 she was sentenced to 25 years imprisonment on charges of treason, incendiarism and attempted arson. Pleading guilty to all charges, she admitted planting and exploding limpet mines at Johannesburgs disreputable police headquarters, John Vorster Square, and also at Cambridge Police Station in East LondonFollowing the unbanning of the ANC, she was released in 1991 at the analogous time as laddie treason prisoners Damian de Lange and Iain Robertson, shortly after which she was nominated to the ANC delegation that participated in an primal round of CODESA, the multiparty negotiations that led to South Africas first multi-racial elections in 1994. In the same year, at the age of 34, she was appointed deputy executive director of the radical Assembly, the body that would draft South Africas groundbreaking 1996 constitution. 1996 she was appointed Town work of the Eastern Metropolitan sub-structure of the Lekoa- Vaal-metropole. 7 Three years later she became the Secretary to the field of study Council of Provinces (NCOP) and in 2000 joined the office of Bulelani Ngcuka where she became Chief Executive Officer of the National Prosecuting spot and the accounting officer of the Directorate of Special Operations, commonly cognise as the Scorpions.In 2003, amidst a public spat between the National Prosecuting Autho rity (NPA) and Jacob Zuma, South Africas then-disgraced deputy president, anonymous letters were sent to the Public helper Commission (PSC) accusing Sparg, her deputy Beryl Simelane and integrity unit head Dipuo Mvelase (also representative Chairperson of the South African Communist Party) of tender-rigging, corruption and nepotism. The Commission lay out no criminal wrongdoing and referred the matter to the Department of Justice and natural Development the parent body of the NPA.The Department head instituted 30 charges against the leash women. South Africas Financial Mail would describe the allegations as bizarre after the charges were reclusive at the formal disciplinary hearing, only to be reinstated two long time later. They would be officially dropped in early 2007. In June 2007 she resigned from the NPA to take up employment in the private sector. Marion has since joined Draftfcb Social Marketing, a naval division of Draftfcb SA.