Hlengiwe Mgabadeli

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Hlengiwe Mgabadeli
Member of the National Assembly
In office
23 April 2004 –6 May 2014
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Citizenship South Africa
Political party African National Congress

Hlengiwe Christophina Mgabadeli is a South African politician who represented the African National Congress (ANC) in the National Assembly from 2004 to 2014. During her second term in the assembly, from 2009 to 2014, she represented the KwaZulu-Natal constituency and chaired Parliament's Joint Standing Committee on Defence.

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Legislative career

Mgabadeli was elected to an ANC seat in the National Assembly in the 2004 general election. [1] She was re-elected in the next general election in 2009, [2] and the ANC additionally nominated her to chair Parliament's Joint Standing Committee on Defence. [3] In the 2014 general election, she was ranked 32nd on the ANC's provincial party list for KwaZulu-Natal and therefore failed to gain re-election. [2]

In 2019, she returned briefly to the public eye while testifying at the State Capture Commission. Whistleblower Vytjie Mentor, in attempting to provide corroborating evidence for her claim that the Gupta family had offered her a ministerial job in 2010, told the commission that she might have told Mgabadeli about her meeting with the Guptas at the time, both because of a personal friendliness and because of Mgabadeli's committee job. However, Mgabadeli told the commission that she did not recall having heard about the meeting until Mentor made her public allegations years later. [4] [5]

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References

  1. ↑ "General Notice: Notice 717 of 2004 - Electoral Commission – List of Names of Representatives in the National Assembly and the Nine Provincial Legislatures in Respect of the Elections Held on 14 April 2004" (PDF). Government Gazette of South Africa . Vol. 466, no. 2677. Pretoria, South Africa: Government of South Africa. 20 April 2004. pp. 4–95. Retrieved 26 March 2021.
  2. 1 2 "Hlengiwe Christophina Mgabadeli". People's Assembly. Retrieved 9 April 2023.
  3. ↑ "ANC names chairpersons of parliamentary committees". Politicsweb. 21 May 2009. Retrieved 9 April 2023.
  4. ↑ Dlulane, Bonga (13 March 2019). "Vytjie Mentor didn't tell me about Guptas' job offer – Hlengiwe Mgabadeli". EWN. Retrieved 9 April 2023.
  5. ↑ "Vytjie Mentor's testimony dealt another blow at state capture inquiry". Sunday Times. 13 March 2019. Retrieved 9 April 2023.
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