Chris Ngiba

Bonginkosi Christopher Ngiba (born 22 October 1951)[1] is a South African politician who represented the KwaZulu-Natal constituency in the National Assembly from 2003 to 2009. He was elected as a member of the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) but crossed the floor to the National Democratic Convention (Nadeco) in September 2005. Near the end of the legislative term, in January 2009, he resigned from his seat and defected to the Congress of the People.

Chris Ngiba
Member of the National Assembly
In office
March 2003 – January 2009
ConstituencyKwaZulu-Natal
Personal details
Born
Bonginkosi Christopher Ngiba

(1951-10-22) 22 October 1951
CitizenshipSouth Africa
Political partyCongress of the People (since 2009)
Other political
affiliations		National Democratic Convention (2005–2009)
Inkatha Freedom Party (until 2005)

Legislative career

Inkatha Freedom Party

Ngiba was the chairperson of the KwaZulu-Natal Taxi Council and was regarded as close to S'bu Ndebele of the governing African National Congress, with whom he cooperated in attempting to mitigate taxi violence in KwaZulu-Natal.[2] He represented the IFP in the KwaZulu-Natal Legislature until March 2003, when the IFP announced that he and several others were to be transferred to the National Assembly.[3] While the party said that its aim was to reinforce its administrative capacity ahead of the 2004 general election,[3] it was widely assumed that its immediate motive was to protect its plurality in the KwaZulu-Natal Legislature by removing legislators who were suspected of planning to cross the floor.[2][4]

National Democratic Convention

In the 2004 general election, Ngiba was elected to a full term in the National Assembly, representing the KwaZulu-Natal constituency.[1] However, during the floor-crossing window of September 2005, he was among a group of four IFP representatives – also including Makhosazana Mdlalose, Gavin Woods, and Vincent Ngema – who defected to Nadeco, a party newly founded by former IFP member Ziba Jiyane.[5] The group said that they had left the IFP once it had become clear that there would be a purge in the party to remove those believed to be disloyal to the IFP.[6]

In August 2006, Ngiba and Ngema were suspended from Nadeco pending a disciplinary hearing, in an apparent power struggle: after Jiyane announced their suspension, another group of senior Nadeco leaders announced that Jiyane would in turn be suspended for overstepping his authority, and Jiyane then said that those leaders would themselves be expelled.[7][8][9] Nonetheless, Ngiba continued to represent the party in the National Assembly, and as chairman of its KwaZulu-Natal branch, until January 2009, when he announced that he had resigned from the party – and therefore from Parliament – in order to join the Congress of the People.[10]

References
  1. "General Notice: Notice 717 of 2004 - Electoral Commission – List of Names of Representatives in the National Assembly and the Nine Provincial Legislatures in Respect of the Elections Held on 14 April 2004" (PDF). Government Gazette of South Africa. Vol. 466, no. 2677. Pretoria, South Africa: Government of South Africa. 20 April 2004. pp. 4–95. Retrieved 26 March 2021.
  2. "IFP guards against defections". The Mail & Guardian. 17 March 2003. Retrieved 13 June 2023.
  3. Pressly, Donwald (4 March 2003). "Musical chairs for IFP MPs". News24. Retrieved 21 May 2023.
  4. Segar, Susan (18 March 2003). "IFP disloyalty costs R155 000". News24. Retrieved 21 May 2023.
  5. "National Assembly Members". Parliamentary Monitoring Group. 15 January 2009. Archived from the original on 14 May 2009. Retrieved 8 April 2023.
  6. "Gavin Woods leaves IFP for new party". IOL. 7 September 2005. Retrieved 13 June 2023.
  7. "Nadeco suspends three top members". The Mail & Guardian. 7 August 2006. Retrieved 13 June 2023.
  8. "Nadeco suspends Ziba Jiyane". The Mail & Guardian. 8 August 2006. Retrieved 13 June 2023.
  9. "Nadeco battle heads for court". The Mail & Guardian. 13 August 2006. Retrieved 13 June 2023.
  10. Mgaga, Thando (9 February 2009). "KZN MPLs join Cope". Witness. Retrieved 13 June 2023.
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