Mziwonke Ndabeni
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Member of the Eastern Cape Provincial Legislature
Assumed office
22 May 2019
Personal details
CitizenshipSouth Africa
Political partyAfrican National Congress

Mziwonke Ndabeni is a South African politician who has represented the African National Congress (ANC) in the Eastern Cape Provincial Legislature since 2019. He is a former Provincial Secretary of the ANC Youth League (ANCYL) in the Eastern Cape.

Political career

In August 2010, Ndabeni was elected Provincial Secretary of the ANCYL in the Eastern Cape. Immediately after his election, and still more than two years ahead of the ANC's 53rd National Conference, he endorsed former ANCYL President Fikile Mbalula's candidacy for the position of ANC Secretary-General, then held by Gwede Mantashe.[1] In the 2014 general election, Ndabeni stood for election to the national Parliament, but he was ranked 171st on the ANC's national party list and was not elected to a seat.[2]

However, when the ANCYL's provincial leadership was disbanded and replaced by an interim task team, Ndabeni was appointed to head the task team.[3] He resigned from that position in November 2017, saying that internal party politics had placed him in "a compromised position": ahead of the ANC's 54th National Conference, the mainstream ANC in the province supported the presidential candidacy of Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa while the ANCYL task team had endorsed Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, and Ndabeni said that he wanted to "give the Youth League space to articulate their position on issues without hindrance".[4]

In the next general election in 2019, he was ranked ninth on the ANC's provincial party list and was elected to a seat in the Eastern Cape Provincial Legislature.[2] In addition, the ANC appointed him as the party's head of elections in the province ahead of the 2021 local elections.[5] In March 2022, the ANC National Executive Committee appointed him to the 31-member interim task team that temporarily replaced the Eastern Cape ANC's Provincial Executive Committee after the latter exceeded its term and was disbanded.[6]

In September 2022, Ndabeni was found guilty of defamation in a case brought by Sitembiso Sicengu, a local councillor in the Eastern Cape.[7]

References

  1. ↑ "ANCYL: Yes to mines and Mbalula". Grocott's Mail. 23 August 2010. Retrieved 2023-02-15.
  2. 1 2 "Mziwonke Ndabeni". People's Assembly. Retrieved 2023-02-15.
  3. ↑ "Eastern Cape ANCYL provincial conference claims 'not true': Ndabeni". Sunday Times. 20 September 2017. Retrieved 2023-02-16.
  4. ↑ "Eastern Cape ANCYL convenor resigns over party presidential preference". Sunday Times. 22 November 2017. Retrieved 2023-02-15.
  5. ↑ Ngcukana, Lubabalo (2 November 2021). "ANC worried about losing Nelson Mandela Bay Metro again". City Press. Retrieved 2023-02-15.
  6. ↑ "ANC EC on the appointment of Provincial Task Team (PTT)". ANC Eastern Cape. 8 March 2022. Retrieved 2023-02-15.
  7. ↑ "Amathole ANC official found guilty of defaming former Mbhashe councillor". Dispatch. 9 September 2022. Retrieved 2023-02-15.
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