Piaba Madokwe (born Phiwaba Madokwe) is a South African politician who served as

Member of the National Assembly In politics, a national assembly is either a unicameral legislature, the lower house of a bicameral legislature, or both houses of a bicameral legislature together. In the English language it generally means "an assembly composed of the rep ...

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 ...

from October 2020 until August 2023. Madokwe had previously served as the secretary-general of the EFF Student Command.

Career

In June 2015, Madokwe was elected secretary-general of the student command of the

. In March 2019, Madokwe was announced as a parliamentary candidate of the EFF for the 2019 general election. She was not elected to parliament at the election in May 2019. In July 2019, Muzi Khozi succeeded her as secretary-general. She was elected to the EFF's central command team, the party's highest-decision making body, in December 2019. On 22 October 2020, Madokwe entered the National Assembly as a replacement for

Peter Keetse Phuti Peter Keetse is a South African politician who served as a Member of the National Assembly for the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) from 2019 to 2020. He was the president of the party's student organisation and a FeesMustFall activist. Ba ...

. Madokwe was one of four EFF MPs who were banned from attending the EFF's 10th anniversary celebrations at the

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on 29 July 2023 for failing to provide buses to take party supporters to the event. On 27 August 2023, EFF leader

Julius Malema Julius Sello Malema (born 3 March 1981) is a South African politician and activist who is a Member of Parliament and the leader of the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF), a left-wing party which he founded in 2013. He was formerly the President of ...

announced that the party was recalling over 210 public representatives, including Madokwe, for their failure to procure transport for party supporters to attend the event. Madokwe resigned from Parliament on 30 August.

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