Last week, the State University of New Jersey, Rutgers, conferred an honorary degree in laws (Doctor of Laws) to SA's communications minister Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri.
The ceremony, held on 21 May, was part of the university's commencement ceremony, where the president of the university formally confers all undergraduate and graduate degrees awarded in the previous academic year.
Matsepe-Casaburri was honoured as one of the most successful, visible and accomplished women in Africa, says ministerial spokesman Joe Makhafola.
She is an alumnus of Rutgers University, having earned her doctorate in sociology at Rutgers in 1984, he says. She is also a former associate professor on the faculty at Rutgers, he adds.
No honour at home
Matsepe-Casaburri has served as SA's communications minister since 1999. During her tenure, she has been widely honoured for her work, including a special African ICT Achievers award.
However, the local ICT sector continues to criticise the minister for her ICT policies, saying they are ineffective.
"So far, she has failed to create a competitive telecommunications environment where communications are accessible and affordable," MyADSL founder Rudolph Muller previously noted.
Matsepe-Casaburri served as chairman of the board of the South African Broadcasting Corporation. She also served as premier of the Free State province from 1997 to 1999.
She was an executive director of the Education Development Trust and was the first woman appointed to the board of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research.
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