Elijah Mhlanga is a renowned educationist in South Africa.

He is the spokesperson of the Basic Department of Education in South Africa.

The representative from Dept of Basic Education found himself in trouble after some tweets he posted landed him problems.

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But just who is Elijah Mhlanga?

He is a champion in this sector.

But who is he?

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The following are details about the man that makes the department of education Pretoria vocal.

He attended the University of Natal, Durban where he pursued Political Science from 1993 to 1995.

He also went to the University of Witwatersrand where he gas been studying Development Communication from 2014.

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Elijah Mhlanga career

Mhlanga has been in the working force for quite some time now.

The following is a summary of the places he has worked at.

All we know has to do with his career and position in the department of basic education in Pretoria.

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However, his Instagram page is private.

He has chosen to have it that way.

If you want to follow him, he will have to approve it first.

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The spokesperson has recently been trending because of his Twitter posts.

His message was to encourage people to read a book.

However, he pushed boundaries intending to make people understand.

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The message accompanying the scantily dressed women with books.

It relaxes the mind, body and soul.

Here is the series of tweets around this matter.

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He issued the apology in a series of tweets as shown below.

In his defence, Mhlanga said that this was an effort to “push the boundary”.

Elijah went on apologizing and explaining what the campaign was all about.

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It was actually bad that the director decided to objectify women.

In this era and age, this is unacceptable they all seemed to say by their tweets.

Elijah Mhlanga is basically the spokesperson of the the department of basic education.

She has a Bachelor of Commerce & IT from the University of Nairobi and joined Briefly.co.za in November 2019.

The writer completed a Google News Initiate Course.

you’re able to email her at perisrodah254@gmail.com.