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Alice Hlebani Mthembu (10 June 1959 – 26 December 2023) was a South African politician from
KwaZulu-Natal KwaZulu-Natal (, also referred to as KZN and known as "the garden province") is a province of South Africa that was created in 1994 when the Zulu bantustan of KwaZulu ("Place of the Zulu" in Zulu) and Natal Province were merged. It is locate ...
. She was a Member of Parliament for the African National Congress.


Early life and education

Mthembu was born into a Zulu family on 10 June 1959. She had a matric certificate.


Political career

Mthembu was a member of the provincial executive committee of the
African National Congress Women's League The African National Congress Women's League (ANCWL) is an auxiliary women's political organization of the African National Congress (ANC) of South Africa. This organization has its precedent in the Bantu Women's League, and it oscillated from b ...
in
KwaZulu-Natal KwaZulu-Natal (, also referred to as KZN and known as "the garden province") is a province of South Africa that was created in 1994 when the Zulu bantustan of KwaZulu ("Place of the Zulu" in Zulu) and Natal Province were merged. It is locate ...
. Prior to the May 8, 2019 general election, Mthembu was the seventeenth candidate on the ANC's list of KwaZulu-Natal candidates for the National Assembly. The Democratic Alliance, an opposition party, urged the public to object to her candidature because she produced false documents in 2000 to try and prove that she married the late ANC Member of the Provincial Legislature in KwaZulu-Natal Shedrack Bheki Mthembu in January 1983. The court ruled against her. She was elected to the National Assembly and sworn in on 22 May 2019. On 27 June, she became a member of the
Portfolio Committee on Communications The Portfolio Committee on Communications is a portfolio committee of the National Assembly in the Parliament of South Africa. The role of the committee is to oversee the work of the Department of Communications and Digital Technologies and other r ...
. In November 2020, Mthembu was named to the
Portfolio Committee on Defence and Military Veterans The Portfolio Committee on Defence and Military Veterans is one of the portfolio committees of the National Assembly of South Africa. It oversees the operations of the Department of Defence and Military Veterans and the Minister of Defence and Mi ...
and the Joint Standing Committee on Defence.


Death

Mthembu died in a car accident on 26 December 2023. She was replaced in parliament by Khulani Hadebe.


See also

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List of members of the National Assembly of South Africa who died in office The following is a list of members of the National Assembly of South Africa who died in office since the chamber's establishment following the introduction of universal suffrage in South Africa in 1994. 22nd Parliament (1994–1999) 23rd Parlia ...


References

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