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Washington Tseko Isaac Mafanya is a South African politician and a Member of Parliament (MP) for the
Economic Freedom Fighters The Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) is a South African left-wing to far-left pan-Africanist and Marxist–Leninist political party. It was founded by expelled former African National Congress Youth League (ANCYL) President Julius Malema, and hi ...
party.


Political career

Mafanya stood as an
EFF EFF or eff may refer to: Politics * Economic Freedom Fighters, a South African communist political party * Economic Freedom Fund, an American political organization * Election Fighting Fund, a British suffragist organization supporting the ear ...
parliamentary candidate in the 2019 national elections, and was subsequently elected to the National Assembly and sworn in on 22 May 2019. He became a member of the
Portfolio Committee on Police The Portfolio Committee on Police is a portfolio committee of the National Assembly in the Parliament of South Africa. As of July 2019, Tina Joemat-Pettersson of the African National Congress serves as chair of the committee. Mandate The commit ...
on 27 June 2019. Mafanya served on the committee until 6 May 2020, when he moved 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 ...
. In 2024, he and nine other EFF MPs plead not guilty to charges of disrupting President Cyril Ramaphosa's speech on parliament's budget vote. This came following an investigation launched by the National Assembly's Powers and Privileges Committee that began after the MPs disrupted Ramaphosa's speech on June 9 and June 10, 2022.


References

Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Economic Freedom Fighters politicians Members of the National Assembly of South Africa 21st-century South African politicians {{Gauteng-politician-stub