Career
He was appointed Chairman of the Nuclear Energy Corporation of South Africa (Necsa) in 2006. Dipico matriculated from Street Boniface High School in Kimberley in 1979, going on to study for a Bachelor of Arts at the University of Fort Hare. In 1996 he obtained a Leadership Diploma at the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania in the United States of America.
Dipico was detained in Ciskei in 1984 during the State of Emergency.
And in Kimberley was detained in 1986 and again in 1987, charged with terrorism, subversion and promoting and furthering the aims of a banned organization. He was sentenced and imprisoned from 1987 to 1990.
He was on the Central Committee of the South African Communist Party in 1995-1998. With the creation of the Northern Cape Province in 1994, Manne Dipico, as Chairman of the African National Congress, became its first Premier, serving in this capacity until 2004.
He traveled to Canada in 1994 to gain insight into the role of premiers there.
In 2001 African National Congress delegates unanimously voted in Manne Dipico as the African National Congress Provincial Chairperson for the fourth time in succession. He was succeeded by Elizabeth Dipuo Peters as Premier in 2004. Dipico has served with various organizations.
Board member Helen Joseph Development Centre, Galeshewe
Patron, Griqualand West Rugby Football Union, 1996
President, Street Johns Ambulance, 1995
Patron, Helen Bishop School for the Mentally Handicapped, 1994
Member, Lions, 1994
Honorary President, Kimberley Children"s Choir.
