Mandlenkosi Phillip Galo (born 5 July 1962) is a South African politician who serves as the inaugural president of the

African Independent Congress The African Independent Congress (AIC) is a minor political party in South Africa. Founded in Matatiele on December 12, 2005, the AIC was a protest against the location of the area within the boundaries of the Eastern Cape province rather tha ...

(AIC), a party he and other disgruntled ANC members founded over a demarcation dispute in 2005. He was elected to the

National Assembly of South Africa The National Assembly is the directly elected house of the Parliament of South Africa, located in Cape Town, Western Cape. It consists of four hundred members who are elected every five years using a party-list proportional representation syste ...

2014 File:2014 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: Stocking up supplies and personal protective equipment (PPE) for the Western African Ebola virus epidemic; Citizens examining the ruins after the Chibok schoolgirls kidnapping; Bundles of wat ...

and won re-election to a second term in

2019 File:2019 collage v1.png, From top left, clockwise: Hong Kong protests turn to widespread riots and civil disobedience; House of Representatives votes to adopt articles of impeachment against Donald Trump; CRISPR gene editing first used to experim ...

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Mr Mandlenkosi Phillip Galo – Parliament of South AfricaMr Mandlenkosi Phillip Galo – People's Assembly
Living people 1962 births Members of the National Assembly of South Africa 21st-century South African politicians African Independent Congress politicians People from Matatiele Local Municipality People from the Eastern Cape {{EasternCape-politician-stub