Richard Dyantyi

POST:	Provinsiale Minister van Plaaslike Regering en Behuising
GOVERNMENT BODY:	Ministry of Local Government and Housing (Provincial Government of the Western Cape)
POLITICAL PARTY:	ANC (African National Congress)
DESCRIPTION:	MEC Richard Dyantyi was born on the 25th of October 1968 in the oldest town in the Eastern Cape, Burgersdorp. His home language is isiXhosa and he is also proficient in English, Afrikaans and Sotho. The MEC had a combination of rural and urban schooling and matriculated in 1989 from All Saints College, Bisho. He acquired Associate In Management from the University of Cape Town's Graduate School of Business and is currently busy with a Marketing and Sales Management Diploma from Peninsula Technikon. He is widely skilled and formally trained in a various range of disciplines ranging from project management to human resources to local government policy as well as conflict resolution. MEC Dyantyi has a long record of activism and leadership within youth structures. He was elected as Secretary of Young Christian Students (YCS), Captain of the Rugby Team and an active member of All Saints Dramatic Soceity as well as the Student Council. MEC Dyantyi has a extensive community involvement, starting as volunteer at the Khayelitsha Advice Office in 1991. He also served as key negotiator for Khayelitsha Education Forum and Community Policing Forum. He served as a core member of the establishment of the Khayelitsha Development Forum. In 1996 - 1998 he served as Chairperson of the Khayelitsha Housing Initiative Forum as well as co-driver of the Presidential Khayelitsha Development Programme. The MEC has previously worked as the ANC Elections Co-ordinator in the run-up to the 1994 elections, as researcher with the Foundation for Contemporary Research (FCR), as well as on the implementation side of the Integrated Development Planning Process for the New City of Cape Town. MEC Dyantyi is a published researcher and some of his writings includes: "Young people taking the lead to tackle challenges of the new millennium" (1999), "Changing life of Khayelitsha" (2001) and "Challenges and Limitations of Public Participation in South Africa" (1999) which he co-authored with Mr. Louw Liebenberg. He has operated as talk show host on Radio Zibonele focussing on Community Affairs. He currently forms part of a READING GROUP convened Isandla Institute and Cape Town Partnership.
SPEECHES:	Budget Speech: 2008/9: Department of Local Government and Housing (Vote 8) 27 May 2008 Budget Speech 2007/2008: Department of Local Government and Housing (Vote 8) 07 June 2007, Cape Town Community Disaster Management Volunteers 07 October 2006, Oliver Tambo Centre, Khayelitsha Budget Speech 2006/07: Vote 8 - Local Government and Housing 24 May 2006, Provincial Legislature The 16 Days of Activism Program in Mbekweni 09 December 2005, Mbekweni The Graduation Ceremony of the Community Development Workers (CDWs) 05 December 2005, The University of the Western Cape Speech of the MEC for Local Government and Housing, of the Western Cape at the Sustainable Human Settlement Summit 24 November 2005, University of Stellenbosch Handing Over Of Houses In Gansbaai 04 November 2005, Gansbaai Inplementing Disaster Management in the Western Cape 28 July 2005, V&A Waterfront, Cape Town
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