Tamara Xhanti

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Tamara Xhanti
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Member of the Eastern Cape Provincial Legislature
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2009 or earlier
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Citizenship South Africa
Political party African National Congress

Ntombizodwa Tamara Xhanti is a South African politician who has represented the African National Congress (ANC) in the Eastern Cape Provincial Legislature for over a decade. She is a prominent member of the ANC's branch in Nelson Mandela Bay. [1] [2]

Xhanti was elected to the provincial legislature in the 2009 general election, ranked 30th on the ANC's provincial party list, [3] and was re-elected in the 2014 general election, ranked 27th. [4] After the 2014 election, she was elected to chair the legislature's Portfolio Committee on Transport. [5] Her most recent term in the legislature began after the 2019 general election, in which she was ranked 30th on the ANC's party list. [4]

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