Bukiwe Fanta

Gloria Bukiwe Fanta is a South African politician who has served in the Eastern Cape provincial government as the Member of the Executive Council (MEC) for Social Development since August 2022. She has been a member of the Eastern Cape Provincial Legislature since May 2019. Before joining the provincial legislature, Fanta had briefly been a Member of Parliament for less than three months, serving from February until May 2019. Fanta is the current provincial co-ordinator and former provincial chairperson of the African National Congress Women's League.

Bukiwe Fanta
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Member of the Eastern Cape Executive Council for Social Development
Assumed office
16 August 2022
PremierOscar Mabuyane
Preceded bySiphokazi Mani-Lusithi
Member of the Eastern Cape Provincial Legislature
Assumed office
22 May 2019
Member of the National Assembly of South Africa
In office
21 February 2019 – 7 May 2019
Personal details
Political partyAfrican National Congress

Political career

In May 2015, at the provincial elective conference of the African National Congress Women's League, Fanta was elected as the new provincial chairperson of the women's league.[1]

Following senior ANC MP Zukile Luyenge's defection to the African Transformation Movement and consequent resignation from the National Assembly of South Africa, Fanta was elected to take up his seat in Parliament.[2] She became a Member of Parliament on 21 February 2019.[3][4] Fanta did not serve as an MP for long as the national and provincial elections in May 2019 were less than three months away. She was number 11 on the ANC's list for the Eastern Cape Provincial Legislature; she was elected to the provincial legislature as the ANC won 44 seats.[5] She was subsequently appointed to head the legislature's women caucus.[6]

At the ANC's provincial elective conference in May 2022, Fanta was re-elected as a member of the ANC's Provincial Executive Committee.[7] Fanta then became the provincial co-ordinator of the ANC Women's League Task Team in July 2022 following the dissolution of its leadership structure.[8]

Provincial government

In August 2022, re-elected ANC provincial chairman Oscar Mabuyane carried out a reshuffle of his executive council, removing all the MECs aligned to his unsuccessful challenger at the provincial conference in May, Babalo Madikizela. Fanta, who was seen as an ally of Mabuyane, was appointed Member of the Executive Council for Social Development; she replaced Siphokazi Mani-Lusithi who was moved to the human settlements portfolio.[9][10]

References
  1. "EC ANCWL elects new leaders". DispatchLIVE. Retrieved 2023-01-08.
  2. "ANC MP defects to Manyi's ATM". News24. Retrieved 2023-01-08.
  3. "People's Assembly". www.pa.org.za. Retrieved 2023-01-08.
  4. "Minutes of Proceedings - Parliament of South Africa" (PDF). Parliament of South Africa. 6 March 2019. Retrieved 8 January 2023.
  5. "Provincial seats assigned - Gazette" (PDF). IEC. Retrieved 8 January 2023.
  6. "'Involve women in the initiation custom' - EC Women's Caucus". HeraldLIVE. Retrieved 2023-01-08.
  7. "ANC STATEMENT ON THE OUTCOMES OF THE 9TH EC PROVINCIAL CONFERENCE". ANC 1912. Retrieved 8 January 2023.
  8. https://www.pressreader.com/south-africa/daily-dispatch/20220726/281565179503741. Retrieved 2023-01-08 – via PressReader. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  9. Macupe, Bongekile. "Mabuyane reshuffles Eastern Cape cabinet and boots out MECs aligned to Madikizela". City Press. Retrieved 2023-01-08.
  10. "EC Premier Mabuyane reshuffles his cabinet, announces 3 new MECs". ewn.co.za. Retrieved 2023-01-08.
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