Makhaya Twabu
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Member of the Eastern Cape Provincial Legislature
Assumed office
22 May 2019
Mayor of Mbizana
In office
2013–2016
Succeeded byDaniswa Mafumbatha
Personal details
CitizenshipSouth Africa
Political partyAfrican National Congress

Makhaya Merriman Twabu is a South African politician who has represented the African National Congress (ANC) in the Eastern Cape Provincial Legislature since 2019. He was formerly the Mayor of Mbizana Local Municipality.

Political career

Twabu was formerly the Speaker of Alfred Nzo District Municipality[1] and served as the mayor of Mbizana until the 2011 local elections.[1] He returned to the mayoral office in mid-2013, when the ANC sought to overhaul the municipal leadership. At that time Mbizana was the poorest municipality in the Eastern Cape.[1] He left office again after the 2016 local elections.[2]

In the 2019 general election, he was elected to an ANC seat in the Eastern Cape Provincial Legislature, ranked 38th on the ANC's provincial party list.[3] At the time of his election, he was serving as a Member of the Mayoral Committee in Alfred Nzo.[4]

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Welcome to Mbizana – a town so bad not even its mayor will live there". Sunday Times. 16 April 2014. Retrieved 2023-02-15.
  2. ↑ "New mayor asks for cooperation". UvoLwethu Express. 25 August 2016. Retrieved 2023-02-15 – via Issuu.
  3. ↑ "Makhaya Merriman Twabu". People's Assembly. Retrieved 2023-02-15.
  4. ↑ "Alfred Nzo municipality announces changes to mayoral committee". News24. 7 August 2019. Retrieved 2023-02-15.
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