Blade Nzimande

Bonginkosi Emmanuel "Blade" Nzimande is a South African politician, sociologist, university lecturer, anti-apartheid activist and Minister of Higher Education, Science and Technology. He was Minister of Transport from 2018 to 2019, and Minister for Higher Education and Training from 2009 to 2017. He has been the General Secretary of the South African Communist Party since 1998.