Phumzile Mbatha-Cele

South African politician

Phumzile Mbatha-Cele MPL

Member of the KwaZulu-Natal Provincial Legislature
Incumbent
Assumed office 29 August 2016

Personal details
Citizenship	South Africa
Political party	African National Congress

Phumzile Harriet Mbatha-Cele is a South African politician who has represented the African National Congress (ANC) in the KwaZulu-Natal Provincial Legislature since August 2016. She is also a former Mayor of Newcastle.

Political career

Mbatha-Cele is from Amajuba in KwaZulu-Natal.^[1] She was the Mayor of Newcastle^[2] in Amajuba until May 2007, when opposition parties in the Newcastle council collaborated to remove her and her deputy from office; she was replaced by Mercy Dube of the Inkatha Freedom Party.^[3] By 2015, she was the Deputy Regional Secretary of the ANC's eMalahleni regional branch in KwaZulu-Natal.^[4] She was still in that office on 29 August 2016, when she sworn in as a Member of the KwaZulu-Natal Provincial Legislature; she filled a casual vacancy created by the resignation of Makhosini Nkosi, who became Mayor of Newcastle after the 2016 local elections.^[1]

In May 2018, Mbatha-Cele was elected Deputy Regional Chairperson of the ANC in eMalahleni, deputising Ntuthuko Mahlaba.^[5] She was elected to her first full term in the legislature in the 2019 general election, ranked 36th on the ANC's provincial party list.^[6] However, in September 2021, she was succeeded as ANC Deputy Regional Chairperson by Phumzile Mgcina.^[7]

References

^ ^a ^b "Mayoral deployments reshuffle MPLs". IOL. 30 August 2016. Retrieved 25 January 2023.
^ "Dignified funeral for pensioner, 85, killed on his bicycle". Sowetan. 8 February 2007. Retrieved 25 January 2023.
^ "Parties oust 2 officials". Sowetan. 28 May 2007. Retrieved 25 January 2023.
^ "Ushaywe ngempama unobhala we-ANC Emalahleni". Eyethu News (in Zulu). 21 September 2015. Retrieved 25 January 2023.
^ "New leaders for KZN ANC regions". Daily Sun. 13 May 2018. Retrieved 25 January 2023.
^ "Phumzile Harriet Mbatha-Cele". People's Assembly. Retrieved 25 January 2023.
^ Capa, Siyamtanda (6 September 2021). "ANC's Mahlaba elected unopposed in Newcastle". Witness. Retrieved 25 January 2023.