Ndodephethe Mthethwa | |
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Member of the KwaZulu-Natal Provincial Legislature | |
Assumed office 22 May 2019 | |
Personal details | |
Citizenship | South Africa |
Political party | African National Congress |
Ndodephethe Bethuel Mthethwa is a South African politician who has represented the African National Congress (ANC) in the KwaZulu-Natal Provincial Legislature since 2019. He was formerly the Mayor of Jozini Local Municipality.
Mthethwa was the Mayor of Jozini [1] [2] until the 2016 local government elections. In the elections, Mthethwa was re-elected as a local councillor and was nominated as the ANC's mayoral candidate, but the ANC failed to gain a plurality of seats. In September 2016, after weeks of deadlock, he was replaced as Mayor by Delani Mabika of the opposition Inkatha Freedom Party. [3] He is also a former Regional Chairperson of the ANC's Far North branch in Umkhanyakude District. [4] He was installed in that office by 2014 [5] and was re-elected in 2018, [6] but in September 2021 his re-election bid was defeated by Siphile Mdaka. [7] [8]
He was elected to the provincial legislature in the 2019 general election, ranked 33rd on the ANC's provincial party list. [9] In July 2022, he was additionally elected to a four-year term on the Provincial Executive Committee of the ANC's KwaZulu-Natal branch. [10]