Thandiwe Rose Marry Zungu (born 9 August 1960) is a South African politician and a

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(MP) for the

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from

KwaZulu-Natal KwaZulu-Natal (, also referred to as KZN and known as "the garden province") is a province of South Africa that was created in 1994 when the Zulu bantustan of KwaZulu ("Place of the Zulu" in Zulu) and Natal Province were merged. It is locate ...

Early life and education

Zungu was born on 9 August 1960. She holds a certificate in management and a certificate in leadership from the Durban University of Technology.

Political career

A member of the

, she was elected as the treasurer of the party's Moses Mabhida region in 1989. In 2008 she was elected as a member of the ANC's regional executive committee and regional working committee. Zungu became a member of the provincial executive committee of the

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in 2017.

Parliament

Zungu stood as an ANC parliamentary candidate from

in the 2019 national elections and was elected to the

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and sworn in on 22 May 2019. On 27 June 2019, Zungu became a member of the National Assembly's Portfolio Committee on International Relations and Cooperation. She was named to the Joint Standing Committee on Defence on 5 September 2019.

References

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