Priscilla Sekgobela | |
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Member of the National Assembly | |
In office 20 January 2014 –6 May 2014 | |
In office 9 May 2004 –May 2009 | |
Constituency | Mpumalanga |
Personal details | |
Born | 11 May 1957 |
Citizenship | South Africa |
Political party | African National Congress |
Priscilla Sindisiwe Sekgobela (born 11 May 1957) is a South African politician who represented the African National Congress (ANC) in the National Assembly from 1994 to 2009,serving the Mpumalanga constituency. She returned for a brief second term from January to May 2014.
Sekgobela was born on 11 May 1957. [1] She was first elected to the National Assembly in the 1994 general election,South Africa's first under universal suffrage, [2] and she gained re-election in 1999 [1] and 2004. [3] She represented the Mpumalanga constituency. She also served as a party whip until August 2007,when the ANC announced that it would demote her;she had been implicated in the so-called Travelgate scandal,which concerned the abuse of parliamentary travel vouchers,and had signed an acknowledgement of debt to Parliament,although she was cleared on a related criminal fraud charge. [4]
Sekgobela was not initially re-elected in the 2009 general election,but she returned to her seat on 20 January 2014,filling the casual vacancy that arose in the ANC's national caucus after Crosby Moni died. [5] She left Parliament again after the general election in May 2014. [6]
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