Honorific-Prefix: | The Honourable |
Connie September | |
Office: | Minister of Human Settlements |
Term Start: | 10 July 2013 |
Term End: | 25 May 2014 |
Predecessor: | Tokyo Sexwale |
Successor: | Lindiwe Sisulu |
President: | Jacob Zuma |
Birth Date: | 26 June 1959 |
Birth Place: | Cape Town, South Africa |
Nationality: | South African |
Party: | African National Congress |
Cornelia "Connie" September (born 26 June 1959, Cape Town) is a retired South African politician that served as Minister of Human Settlements from 2013–2014.[1]
September grew up on the Cape West Coast where her mother would send her for holidays. She worked as clothing factory worker in Salt River in Cape Town with little interest in politics or trade unions, though she began her political activism here in the trade union and labour movement.
At their third national conference, held in July 2023 in Boksburg, September was elected as Deputy Secretary-General of the African National Congress Veterans' League.