Phumzile Mbatha-Cele

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.

Phumzile Mbatha-Cele
MPL
Member of the KwaZulu-Natal Provincial Legislature
Assumed office
29 August 2016
Personal details
CitizenshipSouth Africa
Political partyAfrican National Congress

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