Bekizwe Simon "Bheki" Nkosi (born 19 June 1964) is a South African politician who current represents the African National Congress (ANC) as a

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since

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. An attorney by training, he was formerly a

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from 1997 to 2012 and he served on the

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from 2009 to 2012. He was the deputy president of the ANC Youth League from 1994 to 1996.

Education

Nkosi has BProc and Bachelor of Laws degrees from the University of South Africa and a Master of Laws from the University of Pretoria.

Political career

Nkosi is a member of the African National Congress (ANC). He served as the deputy president of the ANC Youth League from 1994 to 1996, under league president

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, and was a member of the party's Provincial Executive Committee in Gauteng from 1997 to 2000. He also served as secretary and chairperson of his regional ANC branch.

Gauteng Provincial Legislature

He represented the ANC in the

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from 1997 to 2012. He also served as a Member of the

from 2009 to 2012 under Nomvula Mokonyane, who was then the Premier of Gauteng. Mokonyane appointed Nkosi as Member of the Executive Council (MEC) for Roads and Transport after the 2009 general election, and moved him to the Infrastructure Development portfolio in a reshuffle announced on 2 November 2010. He remained MEC for Infrastructure Development until the next reshuffle in July 2012, when he was dropped from the Executive Council and instead appointed to head the Gauteng Gambling Board.

National Assembly

In the 2019 general election, Nkosi was elected to a seat in the National Assembly, ranked 67th on the ANC's national

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in the 2019 general elections. On 27 June 2019, he was assigned as a member of the

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. On 11 September that year, he was also elected as co-chairperson of the

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, alongside

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of the National Council of Provinces. In April 2021, he became a member of the

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, established to evaluate

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's fitness to hold office as the

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Nkosi, Bekizwe Living people 1964 births Xhosa people Politicians from Gauteng University of Pretoria alumni University of South Africa alumni African National Congress politicians 21st-century South African politicians 20th-century South African politicians Members of the Gauteng Provincial Legislature Members of the National Assembly of South Africa