Mncedisi Nontsele (born 1 June 1959) is a member of the

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. A member of the

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, he was elected to parliament in

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. Nontsele is a former mayor of the

Lukhanji Local Municipality Lukhanji Local Municipality was an administrative area in the Chris Hani District of the Eastern Cape in South Africa. Lukhanji is a Xhosa name for the mountain that runs from the eastern side of Queenstown to the western side. After municipal ...

Political career

Nontsele is a member of the

. He had served as the mayor of the

in the

Chris Hani District Municipality Chris Hani is a landlocked district situated in the centre of the Eastern Cape and is made up of eight local municipalities. Most of the communities live in rural areas. The landscape ranges from moist uplands and grassland hills to the arid Ka ...

before he resigned in 2014 to head an organising committee at Calata House, the ANC's provincial headquarters. He served as the convenor of the ANC's regional task team in

Nelson Mandela Bay Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality ( af, Nelson Mandelabaai Metropolitaanse Munisipaliteit; xh, uMasipala wase Nelson Mandela Bay or ''uMasipala waseBhayi'') is one of eight metropolitan municipalities (also called Category A municipalities) in So ...

. In August 2016, he was the keynote speaker at a Chris Hani Memorial Lecture in

Grahamstown Makhanda, also known as Grahamstown, is a town of about 140,000 people in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa. It is situated about northeast of Port Elizabeth and southwest of East London, Eastern Cape, East London. Makhanda is the lar ...

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. He is currently a member of the ANC provincial executive committee.

Parliamentary career

On 17 March 2019, the ANC published their candidates lists for the national and provincial elections on 8 May 2019. He was ranked 12th on the ANC's list of

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candidates from the Eastern Cape. The ANC won 18 regional seats in the province and Nontsele was elected to the National Assembly. He was sworn into office on 22 May during the first meeting of the National Assembly after the election two weeks prior. On 27 June 2019, he was named to the Portfolio Committee on Employment and Labour. On 2 February 2021, he became a member of the Portfolio Committee on Trade and Industry, replacing Tozama Mantashe of the ANC, who died. He was a member of the portfolio committee until 24 February, when he became an alternate member. As a member of the National Assembly, he had a committee attendance rate of 94% (Attended 15 meetings out of 16) and 70% (Attended 32 meetings out of 46) for 2019 and 2020, respectively.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Nontsele, Mncedisi 1959 births Living people People from Chris Hani District Municipality Xhosa people African National Congress politicians Members of the National Assembly of South Africa Mayors of places in South Africa