Ngwanamakwetle Reneiloe Mashabela is a South African politician from 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 ...

party. She has been a

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(MP) in the

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since May 2014. Mashabela is a member of the central command team of the EFF.

Career

Mashabela joined the

in 2013. She was elected to the

in the general election held on 7 May 2014. Mashabela was sworn in as a Member of Parliament on 21 May 2014. In November 2014, house chairperson Cedric Frolick ordered sergeant-at-arms Regina Mohlomi to remove Mashabela from the house after she repeatedly called president

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a "thief" and refused to withdraw. Riot police came in to remove her from the chamber. Mashabela said that she was "traumatised" from the experience. At the EFF's conference in December 2014, she was elected to the central command team as an additional member. Mashabela was re-elected as an MP in May 2019. She was re-elected to the central command team of the EFF in December 2019. Before she joined politics she was a primary school teacher at Nokane primary school in Ditshošing/Shawela village in Bolobedu.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Mashabela, Reneiloe Living people Politicians from Limpopo Year of birth missing (living people) Members of the National Assembly of South Africa Women members of the National Assembly of South Africa Economic Freedom Fighters politicians