Marion Sparg

Marion sparg Marion Sparg was one of the few white women to founder Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK), the armed wing of the African guinea pig Congress during South Africas apartheid era. A sunshine Times journalist, she was prompted into action later on 32 ANC members and 19 civilians were killed by the South African Defence Force in an struggle on Maseru, Lesotho.She would spend the years between 1981 and 1986 in exile where she received cookery in guerrilla warfare and worked in the ANCs Communication Department on a publication named Voice of Women and thereafter linked the modified Operations Division of Umkhonto We Sizwe In 1986 she was sentenced to 25 years imprisonment on charges of treason, fire-raising and attempted arson. Pleading guilty to every(prenominal) charges, she admitted planting and exploding limpet mines at Johannesburgs notorious guard headquarters, John Vorster Square, and also at Cambridge patrol Station in East LondonFollowing the unbanning of the ANC, she was released in 1991 at the same time as fellow treason prisoners Damian de Lange and Iain Robertson, shortly after which she was nominated to the ANC delegation that participated in an earlier round of CODESA, the multiparty negotiations that led to South Africas starting multi-racial elections in 1994. In the same year, at the age of 34, she was appointed deputy decision maker director of the Constitutional Assembly, the physical structure that would rough drawing South Africas groundbreaking 1996 constitution. 1996 she was appointed townspeople Clerk of the Eastern Metropolitan sub-structure of the Lekoa- Vaal-metropole. 7 3 years later she became the Secretary to the depicted object Council of Provinces (NCOP) and in 2000 joined the office of Bulelani Ngcuka where she became foreland Executive Officer of the national Prosecuting trust and the accounting officer of the Directorate of Special Operations, commonly known as the Scorpions.In 2003, amidst a public spat betwe en the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) and Jacob Zuma, South Africas then-disgraced deputy president, nameless letters were sent to the Public emolument Commission (PSC) accusing Sparg, her deputy Beryl Simelane and faithfulness unit head Dipuo Mvelase (also Deputy hot seat of the South African Communist Party) of tender-rigging, corruption and nepotism. The Commission found no twist wrongdoing and referred the matter to the Department of umpire and Constitutional Development the parent body of the NPA.The Department head instituted 30 charges against the trio women. South Africas Financial Mail would pass the allegations as bizarre after the charges were withdrawn at the formal disciplinary hearing, only to be reinstated two days later. They would be officially dropped in early 2007. In June 2007 she resigned from the NPA to pose up employment in the buck private sector. Marion has since joined Draftfcb Social Marketing, a form of Draftfcb SA.