Lindiwe Lasindwa | |
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Member of the Gauteng Provincial Legislature | |
In office 2006 –1 August 2021 | |
Personal details | |
Died | 1 August 2021 |
Citizenship | South Africa |
Political party | African National Congress |
Lindiwe Lasindwa (died 1 August 2021) was a South African politician who represented the African National Congress (ANC) in the Gauteng Provincial Legislature from 2006 until her death in 2021. A former local councillor in KwaThema, Gauteng, she was also a member of the Provincial Executive Committee of the ANC's Gauteng branch.
Lasindwa was a ward councillor in KwaThema from 2004 until 2006, when she joined the Gauteng Provincial Legislature. [1] She was re-elected to her first full term in the legislature in the 2009 general election, ranked 33rd on the ANC's provincial party list, [2] and she was elected to her second and third terms, respectively, in 2014 (ranked 28th) and 2019 (ranked 25th). [3]
During her tenure in office, she served stints as Chairperson of the Standing Committee on Petitions [4] and of the Portfolio Committee on Infrastructure Development and Gender, Youth, and People with Disabilities. [5] At the time of her death, she chaired the legislature's Portfolio Committee on Economic Development, Environment, Agriculture and Rural Development. [5] She also served as a member of the Provincial Executive Committee of the Gauteng ANC, having been elected to a four-year term on the committee at a party elective conference in July 2018. [6]
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