Education
Hogan attended Street Dominic"s Catholic School for Girls, Boksburg and gained a degree at the University of the Witwatersrand.
Hogan attended Street Dominic"s Catholic School for Girls, Boksburg and gained a degree at the University of the Witwatersrand.
Her responsibilities in this movement were to mobilize the white political left, participate in public political campaigning and supply the African National Congress underground in Botswana with information about trade union and community activity in South Africa. Hogan was detained in 1982 for ‘furthering the aims of a banned organization’ and after being interrogated, ill-treated and held in solitary confinement for one year, she became the first woman in South Africa found guilty of high treason and was sentenced to ten years in prison. Upon release she played a pivotal role in restructuring the African National Congress in her capacity as secretary of the PWV regional office.
When Kgalema Motlanthe took office as President on 25 September 2008, he appointed Hogan as Minister of Health to replace Manto Tshabalala-Msimang.
American Advertising Federation provides grants to effective South African efforts to combat Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome and also develops innovative, collaborative programs. Amandla means "strength" or "power" in Zulu, Xhosa and other South African languages.
The American Advertising Federation advisory board, chaired by Archbishop Desmond Tutu, includes leading South African Human Immunodeficiency Virus/Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome experts and Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome activists who help select effective South African organizations and programs to receive grants. In the past year, American Advertising Federation has allocated and granted over $1.25 million to Human Immunodeficiency Virus/Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome advocacy, prevention and treatment programs.
ANSA, a nonprofit organization dedicated to combating the African Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome pandemic and advancing democracy and equality in South Africa, also works to further civil rights and safeguard voting rights in the United States. Although Hogan was not a medical professional, she said that she had a very capable deputy, Doctor Molefi Sefularo, who was a medical doctor and had been very engaged in the healthcare sector.
Hogan helped the South African government address the Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome pandemic among South Africans almost a decade of denial and neglect by the previous Minister of Health, Manto Tshabalala-Msimang. In May 2009, she was appointed to the Ministry of Public Enterprises, from which she was axed in 2010 by President Jacob Zuma. In December 2015 she denounced the president for sacking the then finance minister (Nhlanhla Nene) and called on the citizenry to "rise up and say enough is enough".
Hogan joined the African National Congress in 1976 after the Soweto Uprising, many years after the organization had been declared illegal and had moved its activities underground. Hogan was released in 1990 with the unbanning of outlawed organizations and together with other political prisoners, most notably Nelson Mandela. Hogan was named Minister of Public Health in September 2008 on the basis of her financial managerial skills, which were urgently needed in the rundown Department of Health, according to her in a 2008 interview by News24.
Hogan is a member of the advisory board of the Amandla Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome Fund (American Advertising Federation), which was established by the nonprofit organization Artists for a New South Africa (ANSA) in 2003 with a $2.5 million donation from Carlos and Deborah Santana, which represented the entire Netto proceeds of the 2003 United States. Summer Santana Shaman tour.