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KwaZulu-Natal (National Assembly Of South Africa Constituency)
KwaZulu-Natal ( zu, iKwaZulu-Natali) is one of the nine multi-member constituencies of the National Assembly of South Africa, the lower house of the Parliament of South Africa, the national legislature of South Africa. The constituency was established in 1994 when the National Assembly was established by the Interim Constitution following the end of Apartheid. It is conterminous with the province of KwaZulu-Natal. The constituency currently elects 41 of the 400 members of the National Assembly using the closed party-list proportional representation electoral system. At the 2019 general election it had 5,524,666 registered electors. Electoral system KwaZulu-Natal currently elects 41 of the 400 members of the National Assembly using the closed party-list proportional representation electoral system. Constituency seats are allocated using the largest remainder method with a Droop quota. Election results Summary Detailed 2019 Results of the 2019 general election held on 8 May 2019 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Assembly Of South Africa
The National Assembly is the directly elected house of the Parliament of South Africa, located in Cape Town, Western Cape. It consists of four hundred members who are elected every five years using a party-list proportional representation system where half of the members are elected proportionally from nine provincial lists and the remaining half from national lists so as to restore proportionality. The National Assembly is presided over by a Speaker, assisted by a Deputy Speaker. The current Speaker is Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula who previously served as the Minister of Defence and Military Veterans. She was elected on 19 August 2021. The Deputy Speaker is Solomon Lechesa Tsenoli who has served in the post since his election on 21 May 2014. The National Assembly chamber was destroyed in a fire in January 2022. National Assembly sittings will now be held in the old Good Hope Chamber, which is within the precincts of parliament. Allocation The National Assembly seats are allocated ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma
Nkosazana Clarice Dlamini-Zuma (née Dlamini; born 27 January 1949), sometimes referred to by her initials NDZ, is a South African politician, medical doctor and former anti-apartheid activist. A longstanding member of the African National Congress (ANC), she currently serves as Minister of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs and is the Chancellor of the University of Limpopo. Dlamini-Zuma was born and educated in the former Natal province, where, as a student, she became involved in the Black Consciousness Movement through the South African Students' Organisation. Between 1976 and 1990, she lived in exile outside South Africa, primarily in the United Kingdom and Swaziland, where she practiced medicine and engaged in ANC activism. Since 1994, Dlamini-Zuma has served in the cabinet of every post-apartheid South African president. She was Minister of Health under President Nelson Mandela, and Minister of Foreign Affairs for ten years under Presidents Thabo Mbeki and Pre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phiwaba Madokwe
Piaba Madokwe (born Phiwaba Madokwe) is a South African politician who served as Member of the National Assembly for the Economic Freedom Fighters from October 2020 until August 2023. Madokwe had previously served as the secretary-general of the EFF Student Command. Career In June 2015, Madokwe was elected secretary-general of the student command of the Economic Freedom Fighters. In March 2019, Madokwe was announced as a parliamentary candidate of the EFF for the 2019 general election. She was not elected to parliament at the election in May 2019. In July 2019, Muzi Khozi succeeded her as secretary-general. She was elected to the EFF's central command team, the party's highest-decision making body, in December 2019. On 22 October 2020, Madokwe entered the National Assembly as a replacement for Peter Keetse. Madokwe was one of four EFF MPs who were banned from attending the EFF's 10th anniversary celebrations at the FNB Stadium on 29 July 2023 for failing to provide buses to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dean Macpherson
Dean William Macpherson (born 2 February 1985) is a South African Member of Parliament for the Official Opposition, the Democratic Alliance and Provincial Chairperson in KwaZulu-Natal. He served his first full term in the National Assembly from 2014 - 2019 and was re-elected to the National Assembly on 8 May 2019 to begin his second term. On the 27th of March 2021, he was elected as the Chairperson of the Democratic Alliance in KwaZulu-Natal. In 2020, he had a 64% committee attendance rate as a Member of Parliament (30 meetings out of 47). He was the Shadow Deputy Minister for Trade and Industry from 2014 to 2017 before being promoted to Shadow Minister for Trade and Industry from 2017 - 2019. Macpherson is from Durban, Kwa-Zulu Natal and currently resides in Umhlanga. From 2009 to 2014, Macpherson was the elected Ward Councillor for Durban North in the eThekwini Municipality where he served as the Chief Whip of the party until 2013. Controversy On 7 October 2021, Macp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mandlenkosi Mabika
Mandlenkosi Sicelo Mabika is a South African politician who was first elected to the National Assembly in 2014 as a member of the National Freedom Party. He joined the Democratic Alliance in March 2019 and was re-elected to the National Assembly at that year's election in May. Education Mabika holds a teachers' diploma from the Rand Afrikaans University, a personal management certificate, a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Durban-Westville, and a Bachelor of Education Honours from Stellenbosch University. Political career Mabika joined the National Freedom Party shortly after its founding in January 2011 and was appointed a district secretary for the party. In December of that same year, he was voted in as the party's deputy national chairperson. At the 2014 general election, Mabika won a seat in the National Assembly. He was named to the National Assembly's committees on environmental affairs, economic development, sport and recreation, and transport. In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Regina Mina Mpontseng Lesoma
Regina Mina Mpontseng Lesoma is a South African politician who has served as a Member of the National Assembly of South Africa since 2012, representing the African National Congress (ANC). She was elected to a full term in 2014 and re-elected in 2019. Lesoma currently serves on the Joint Committee on Ethics and Members' Interests, the Joint Standing Committee on the Financial Management of Parliament and the Rules Committee. References External linksMs Regina Mina Mpontseng Lesomaat Parliament of South Africa The Parliament of the Republic of South Africa is South Africa's legislature; under the present Constitution of South Africa, the bicameral Parliament comprises a National Assembly and a National Council of Provinces. The current twenty-seve ...Lesoma, Regina Mina Mpontsengat ANC Parliamentary Caucus Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Place of birth missing (living people) Politicians from KwaZulu-Natal African National Congress politicia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alf Lees
Robert Alfred Lees (born 25 October 1952) is a South African politician who has been a Member of Parliament (MP) for the Democratic Alliance (DA). Career He was a member of the Shadow Cabinet of Mmusi Maimane. He sits on the Standing Committee on Public Accounts The Standing Committee on Public Accounts (SCOPA; Afrikaans: ''Staande Komitee oor Openbare Rekeninge'') is a standing committee of the National Assembly of South Africa, the lower house of the Parliament of South Africa. It oversees the financial .... References Living people 1952 births White South African people Members of the National Assembly of South Africa Democratic Alliance (South Africa) politicians {{KwaZuluNatal-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dianne Kohler Barnard
Dianne Kohler Barnard is a South African politician and former journalist, and a Member of Parliament for the Democratic Alliance (DA). In October 2015, she was expelled from the party by the DA Federal Executive. In December 2015, the decision was lifted on appeal to the DA's Federal Legal Commission. She was born in Port Elizabeth, and currently resides in KwaZulu-Natal, where she represents the Durban South constituency. Career in journalism Kohler Barnard spent 23 years working as a radio and print journalist. She ran the KwaZulu-Natal offices of SAfm and also presented/produced the station's afternoon news programme ''The Editors''. Kohler Barnard is also the former chairperson of the Broadcast, Electronic Media and Allied Workers' Union in KwaZulu-Natal, and was a founder member of the inaugural SABC HIV/Aids Committee. Politics Kohler Barnard moved to politics in response to increasing state interference in the management of the SABC. She was elected to parliamen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fikile Eunice Khumalo
Fikile Eunice Khumalo is a South African politician who has been an African National Congress Member of Parliament (MP) since 2020, and previously from 2009 to 2014. Parliamentary career First term in parliament Khumalo was elected to the National Assembly of South Africa in the 2009 parliamentary election from the ANC's KwaZulu-Natal list. In the Fourth Parliament (2009–2014), she was a member of the Committee On Private Members' Legislative Proposals And Special Petitions, the Portfolio Committee On Trade and Industry and the Portfolio Committee on Social Development and was the constituency contact for the ANC's Nquthu constituency office. Prior to the 2014 elections, Khumalo was not included on the ANC's parliamentary lists. She was the 58th candidate on the ANC list for the KwaZulu-Natal Legislature. The ANC won only 52 seats in the provincial legislature, declining Khumalo a seat. She did not return to parliament. Second term in parliament In 2019 Khumalo stood for t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Makoti Khawula
Makoti Sibongile Khawula (born 7 December 1954) is a South African politician and previous anti-apartheid activist from KwaZulu-Natal serving as a Member of the National Assembly of South Africa for the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) party since 2014. Khawula is known for her insistence on speaking Zulu in Parliament. Early life and education Khawula was born on 7 December 1954 in Durban in the former Natal Province. She only fulfilled grade 8 while attending school. She later completed a certificate in surveying from the Durban University of Technology and a Doctors For Life course in Home Based Care. Political career Political activism Khawula joined the African National Congress (ANC) and participated in anti-apartheid activities in the Durban communities of Inanda and KwaMashu in the 1980s. She became an organiser for the ANC in 1990. Within the ANC, she was a member of the party's Women's League, a provincial election organiser in 1994 and a development activist for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Jeffery (South African Politician)
John Harold Jeffery (born 31 October 1963) has been the Deputy Minister of Justice and Constitutional Development in South Africa since 2013. He was appointed by President Jacob Zuma in a cabinet reshuffle on 9 July 2013, and has remained in the post throughout the tenure of current President Cyril Ramaphosa. Life and career Jeffery was born in Mauritius and grew up in George in South Africa. He has an BA in Political Science and English, an LLB, and a postgraduate diploma in Environmental Law from the University of KwaZulu-Natal. He was active in anti-Apartheid politics, and he practiced briefly as an attorney, including, in the early 1990s, on cases involving political violence in KwaZulu-Natal. He left to pursue his political career in the KwaZulu-Natal provincial legislature, to which he belonged from 1994 to 1999. In South Africa's second democratic elections in 1999, he was elected to the National Assembly on the African National Congress (ANC) list for KwaZulu-Natal. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Haniff Hoosen
Mohammed Haniff Hoosen is a South African politician who has served as a Member for the National Assembly for the Independent Democrats (ID) (2007–2014) and currently for the Democratic Alliance (DA) (2014–present). Within the Official Opposition Shadow Cabinet, he serves as the DA's spokesperson on the Standing Committee on the Auditor-General. He was the Shadow Minister of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs from 2019 to 2020. Hoosen was also the Shadow Minister of Home Affairs from 2014 to 2019. Biography Hoosen was born in Chatsworth in the former Natal Province. He joined the National Party (NP), which became the New National Party (NNP). He was elected to the Durban city council in 1996 and served on the council until 2001. Hoosen joined the Independent Democrats in 2005 and served as head of the party's campaign in the 2006 municipal elections. He was soon elected Secretary-General of the ID in 2007. He joined the National Assembly in the same year. T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
