Lindiwe Lasindwa (died 1 August 2021) was a South African politician who represented the
African National Congress (ANC) in the
Gauteng Provincial Legislature
The Gauteng Provincial Legislature is the legislature of the South African province of Gauteng. It is a unicameral body of 73 members elected every five years. The current legislature, the sixth, was elected on 8 May 2019 and has an African N ...
from 2006 until her death in 2021. A former local councillor in
KwaThema, Gauteng, she was also a member of the
Provincial Executive Committee of the ANC's
Gauteng branch.
Political career
Lasindwa was a ward councillor in KwaThema from 2004 until 2006, when she joined the Gauteng Provincial Legislature.
She was re-elected to her first full term in the legislature in the
2009 general election, ranked 33rd on the ANC's provincial party list, and she was elected to her second and third terms, respectively, in
2014
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(ranked 28th) and
2019
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(ranked 25th).
During her tenure in office, she served stints as Chairperson of the Standing Committee on Petitions and of the Portfolio Committee on Infrastructure Development and Gender, Youth, and People with Disabilities.
At the time of her death, she chaired the legislature's Portfolio Committee on Economic Development, Environment, Agriculture and Rural Development.
She also served as a member of the Provincial Executive Committee of the Gauteng ANC, having been elected to a four-year term on the committee at a party elective conference in July 2018.
Death
She died on 1 August 2021 after a short illness.
References
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20th-century births
2021 deaths
African National Congress politicians
Members of the Gauteng Provincial Legislature
21st-century South African politicians
Year of birth missing
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