Fatima Hajaig (born 10 December 1938) is a South African politician, with the ruling African National Congress. She is a member of the African Union's Pan-African Parliament from South Africa. She used to be chairperson of the committee of foreign affairs of the South African parliament. She was Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs under Presidents Mbeki and Motlanthe.
Hajaig graduated from University of the Witwatersrand in 1963. In 1967, she earn...
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Fatima Hajaig (born 10 December 1938) is a South African politician, with the ruling African National Congress. She is a member of the African Union's Pan-African Parliament from South Africa. She used to be chairperson of the committee of foreign affairs of the South African parliament. She was Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs under Presidents Mbeki and Motlanthe.
Hajaig graduated from University of the Witwatersrand in 1963. In 1967, she earned her LLB from Eötvös Loránd University in Hungary.
In December 2008, she summoned Israel's new ambassador to the Foreign Ministry to criticize Israeli actions in Gaza. This led to an official complaint by Israel to the South African Embassy in Tel Aviv because, it said, Hajaig insulted Elias Inbram, the Israeli Embassy's Ethiopia-born spokesman, presuming he was brought to the meeting as a token black and asking the ambassador:
When your colleagues in Europe attend a meeting like this, do they also take someone along like the person sitting...
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