Sweetness Mbonyana

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Sweetness Mbonyana
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Member of the Eastern Cape Provincial Legislature
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22 May 2019
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Citizenship South Africa
Political party African National Congress

Sigqibokazi Sweetness Mbonyana is a South African politician who has represented the African National Congress (ANC) in the Eastern Cape Provincial Legislature since 2019. She was elected to her legislative seat in the 2019 general election, ranked 24th on the ANC's provincial party list. [1]

Mbonyana is a member of the ANC's regional branch in Joe Gqabi District. [2] In 2022, ahead of the ANC's 55th National Conference, she was nominated by 199 local party branches to stand for election to the ANC's National Executive Committee; by number of branch nominations received, she was ranked 123rd of all candidates for the 80 ordinary seats on the committee. [3] She was not elected to a seat.

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References

  1. "Sigqibokazi Sweetness Mbonyana". People's Assembly. Retrieved 2023-02-16.
  2. "ANC EC statement on the announcement of the Joe Gqabi Regional Task Team". ANC Eastern Cape. 3 November 2018. Retrieved 2023-02-16.
  3. "Top 200 NEC additional members list". African National Congress. 1 December 2022. Retrieved 16 February 2023.