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Cleo Wilskut (born 27 April 2004) [1] is a South African politician. She represented the Patriotic Alliance (PA) party in the National Assembly of South Africa since June 2024 until her resignation in November 2024. She was the 4th candidate on the PA's election list in 2024. [1]
Wilskut was a member of the Portfolio Committee on Communications and Digital Technologies in the South African parliament.
Wilskut resigned from the National Assembly in 7 November 2024. [2] [3] She was South Africa's youngest MP. [3]
Patricia de Lille is a South African politician who is the current Minister of Tourism and leader of the political party Good. She served as Minister of Public Works and Infrastructure from 2019 to 2023.
Natasha Wendy Anita MazzoneMP OSI is a South African politician who served as the Chief Whip of the Official Opposition in the National Assembly of South Africa from October 2019 until August 2022. She has been a Member of the National Assembly, representing the official opposition Democratic Alliance (DA), since 2009. She was the second Deputy Federal Council Chairperson of the DA and the party's spokesperson on state capture. Mazzone has previously served as Shadow Minister of Public Enterprises and of Communications.
The Patriotic Alliance (PA) is a right-wing political party in South Africa, formed in November 2013 by, among others, businessmen and former convicts Gayton McKenzie and Kenny Kunene. Since 2024, it is a part of the current South African government of national unity together with the African National Congress (ANC), the Democratic Alliance and other parties.
Good is a South African social democratic political party that was formed in December 2018.
The Electoral Commission of South Africa (IEC) announced on 20 March 2019 that a record number of 48 parties had registered candidates for the national parliamentary election. This is 19 more parties that contested the 2014 national elections. In the provincial legislature elections, the total number of parties registering candidates were:
Nokulunga Primrose Sonti is a South African politician from the North West who served as a Member of the National Assembly of South Africa for the Economic Freedom Fighters from May 2014 until May 2024. Sonti was previously a member of the African National Congress.
Brett Norton Herron is a South African politician and attorney who has been a member of the Western Cape Provincial Parliament since June 2024. He previously served in the house from May 2019 until February 2022. He also served as a Member of the National Assembly of South Africa from February 2022 to May 2024. Herron is the secretary-general of the GOOD party. He was the party's candidate for Mayor of Cape Town in the 2021 municipal elections.
Rachel Cecilia Adams is a South African politician from the African National Congress. She has been a member of the National Assembly of South Africa since May 2017, representing the Northern Cape. She serves as a member of the Portfolio Committee on Land Reform and Rural Development and the Portfolio Committee on Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities. A 2023 report by the National Assembly's ethics committee listed Adams as one of the members of parliament who had not received any gifts or hospitality payments from outside sources.
Cilliers Brink is a South African politician who was Mayor of Tshwane from 28 March 2023 until 26 September 2024. A member of the Democratic Alliance, he was the party's Shadow Minister of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs from 2020 until 2023 and a Member of Parliament (MP) from 2019 to 2023. He was the party's Shadow Deputy Minister of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs between 2019 and 2020.
Samantha Jane Graham is a South African politician from the Eastern Cape who was elected to the National Assembly of South Africa in the 2019 general election and re-elected in the 2024 general election as a member of the Democratic Alliance. Graham has been the Deputy Minister of Electricity since 2024. Graham served as the shadow deputy minister of public works and infrastructure from 2019 to 2020 and as the shadow minister for the portfolio between 2020 and 2023, when she was named shadow minister of electricity. She is a former councillor of the Dr Beyers Naudé Local Municipality.
Sibongiseni Ngcobo is a South African politician who served as a Member of Parliament (MP) in the National Assembly from May 2019 until May 2024. A member of the Democratic Alliance, he was the youngest Member of the National Assembly at the time of his election to Parliament. Ngcobo served as a DA councillor in the Richmond Local Municipality from 2016 to 2019.
Haseenabanu Ismail is a South African politician of the Democratic Alliance who is serving as a member of the South African National Assembly since May 2019. Ismail was previously the councillor for ward 29 in the Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality.
Mimmy Martha Gondwe is a South African politician serving as the Deputy Minister of Higher Education since 2024. A member of the Democratic Alliance, Gondwe was Shadow Deputy Minister of State Security from 2019 to 2020, the Shadow Deputy Minister of Public Service and Administration between 2020 and 2023, and the Shadow Minister of Public Enterprises from 2023 until 2024. She has been a Member of Parliament (MP) in the National Assembly since May 2019.
Tsepo Winston Mhlongo is a South African politician. As a member of the Democratic Alliance, he served as a councillor in the City of Johannesburg until the 2014 national election, when he was elected to the National Assembly of South Africa. After that, he was appointed Shadow Deputy Minister of Rural Development and Land Reform. Mhlongo became the Shadow Minister of Sport and Recreation in January 2017 before he was selected to be Shadow Minister of Sports, Arts and Culture in June 2019. On 1 December 2023, Mhlongo was expelled from the DA and lost his parliamentary membership. He has since joined ActionSA.
Alice Hlebani Mthembu was a South African politician from KwaZulu-Natal. She was a Member of Parliament for the African National Congress.
Nomasonto Evelyn Motaung is a South African politician who was elected as a Member of Parliament (MP) for the African National Congress in the 2019 national election. In March 2023, she was appointed as Deputy Minister in the Presidency and served in that position till 2024.
Katrina De Bruin is a South African politician who has been a councillor in Bitou Local Municipality since October 2024, representing the Patriotic Alliance. De Bruin had previously served as a Member of the National Assembly of South Africa from June until October 2024.
Gavin Franklin Jonas is a South African politician who served in the National Assembly of South Africa for the Patriotic Alliance from June until November 2024.
Stacey-Lee Gaby Khojane is a South African politician and internet personality who served as a Member of the National Assembly of South Africa for the Patriotic Alliance from June until November 2024.
Raatiqah Tagodien is a South African politician and community activist who has been a Member of the National Assembly of South Africa since November 2024, representing the Patriotic Alliance.