Zola Mlenzana is a South African politician. A former member of the Congress of the People, he was elected as a Permanent Delegate to the

National Council of Provinces The National Council of Provinces (NCOP) is the upper house of the Parliament of South Africa under the (post-apartheid) constitution which came into full effect in 1997. It replaced the former Senate, but is very similar to that body, and to ma ...

from the

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in 2009. In 2014 he resigned from COPE and rejoined the

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. Mlenzana was elected to the

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in 2019.

Political career

In 2008 Mlenzana joined the Congress of the People. He was a member of the

before that. After the 2009 national and provincial elections, the

Eastern Cape Provincial Legislature The Eastern Cape Provincial Legislature is the primary legislative body of the South African province of Eastern Cape. It is unicameral in its composition, and elects the premier and the provincial cabinet from among the members of the leading pa ...

elected him as a Permanent Delegate to the

from the Eastern Cape, representing COPE. He served on the Select Committee on Labour and Public Enterprises (NCOP Committees), the Select Committee on Public Services (NCOP Committees) and the Select Committee on Land and Environmental Affairs (NCOP Committees) during the Fourth Parliament (2009–2014). Prior to the 2014 general elections, Mlenzana and many other COPE MPs resigned from COPE and rejoined the ANC. In 2017 he was elected chairperson of an ANC branch. Mlenzana was elected chairperson of the South African National Civic Organization in the Eastern Cape in 2018. In 2019 he stood for election to the

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as a candidate on the ANC's Eastern Cape list. At the election, he won a seat in the Assembly. Upon election, he became a member of the Standing Committee on Appropriations and the Standing Committee on Auditor General.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Mlenzana, Zola Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Place of birth missing (living people) Xhosa people Members of the National Assembly of South Africa Members of the National Council of Provinces African National Congress politicians Congress of the People (South African political party) politicians