Raesetja Jane Sithole is a South African politician. She has been serving as a Member of the

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since May 2014. Sithole is also the Provincial Leader of the Mpumalanga Democratic Alliance.

Education

Sithole achieved a BA Degree in Communications from the

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. Sithole also holds a National Diploma (T3) in Office Administration from the Tshwane University of Technology. She also obtained a Diploma in Political Leadership and Governance from the Wits School of Governance. She further obtained a Post Graduate Diploma in Political Leadership and Governance from the Wits School of Governance. Sithole also obtained a Management Development Programme (MDP) certificate from the Graduate School of Management at the University of Pretoria. She also obtained a Senior Management Programme (SMP) certificate from the Graduate School of Management at the University of Pretoria.

Political career

Sithole joined the Democratic Alliance, previously known as the

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, in 1999. Sithole had served as a councillor of both the Emalahleni Local Municipality and the

Nkangala District Municipality Nkangala is one of the 3 districts of Mpumalanga province of South Africa. The seat of Nkangala is Middelburg. The Nkangala District Municipality consists of 160 towns and villages. The most spoken language of its 1,308,129 people is IsiNdebele wi ...

from 2000 until 2014. Sithole served as Chief Whip of Emalahleni Caucas from 2007 up to 2014. She was elected to the

in 2014 and was appointed to the position of Chief Whip of the Democratic Alliance caucus. In the fifth provincial legislature (2014–2019), she sat on the Public Works & Transport, Community Safety, Security & Liaison, Health, and Social Development committees in the legislature. She currently sits on the Health and Social Development, and Education, Culture, Sport and Recreation committees. Before being elected Provincial Leader, Sithole served as Provincial Chairperson for the Association of Democratic Alliance Councillors (ADAC) from 2005 to 2011. Sithole was elected to the position of Provincial Deputy Leader in 2012 until 2015. In 2015 Sithole was elected to the position of Provincial Chairperson of the party. Sithole was elected unopposed as the Provincial Leader of the Democratic Alliance in Mpumalanga on 3 March 2018, succeeding

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. On 20 September 2018, Sithole was announced as the Democratic Alliance's Mpumalanga Premier candidate for the 2019 election. In the May 2019 election, the Provincial Democratic Alliance lost its official opposition status to the Economic Freedom Fighters, though the party did manage to retain all three of its seats in the provincial legislature. Sithole was re-elected unopposed as provincial leader in October 2020. She supported interim DA leader

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's campaign to become leader of the party for a full term at the party's Federal Congress.

References

External links

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