Celiwe Madlopha | |
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Member of the KwaZulu-Natal Provincial Legislature | |
Assumed office 22 May 2019 | |
Member of the National Assembly | |
In office 17 November 2010 –7 May 2019 | |
Constituency | KwaZulu-Natal |
Personal details | |
Citizenship | South Africa |
Political party | African National Congress |
Other political affiliations | South African Communist Party |
Celiwe Qhamkile Madlopha is a South African politician who has represented the African National Congress (ANC) in the KwaZulu-Natal Provincial Legislature since 2019. Before that,she was a Member of the National Assembly between 2010 and 2019. She is also a former Provincial Chairperson of the ANC Women's League in KwaZulu-Natal.
Madlopha was active in the Congress of South African Students in her youth in the 1980s. [1] She was formerly the Deputy Mayor of Umhlathuze Local Municipality [2] [3] and she was sworn in to an ANC seat in the National Assembly in November 2010. [1] [4] In March 2012,she was elected Provincial Chairperson of the KwaZulu-Natal branch of the ANC Women's League in a fierce contest with the outgoing chairperson,Lungi Mnganga-Gcabashe;Nonhlanhla Khoza was elected alongside her as Provincial Secretary. [3]
She was re-elected to her first full term in Parliament in the 2014 general election,ranked third on the ANC's regional party list for KwaZulu-Natal. [4] However,she left her ANC Women's League office in September 2017,when Khoza was elected to succeed her. [5]
In the 2019 general election,Madlopha did not stand for re-election to the national Parliament,but instead was elected to a seat in the KwaZulu-Natal Provincial Legislature,ranked 39th on the ANC's provincial party list. [4] She remained active in the ANC –her local regional branch was the Musa Dladla branch in King Cetshwayo District [6] –and in July 2022 she was elected to a four-year term on the Provincial Executive Committee of the party's KwaZulu-Natal branch. [7] In addition,she was elected to three consecutive five-year terms as a member of the Central Committee of the South African Communist Party,in 2012, [8] 2017,and 2022. [9]
She was married to Bonginkosi Elphas Madlopha,a Christian minister and a local leader in the ANC and the South African National Civic Organisation. [10] He died in February 2014 shortly after he and his wife arrived in Cape Town for the 2014 State of the Nation Address. [10]
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