Zintle Ndlazi | |
|---|---|
| Member of the National Assembly | |
| In office 18 October 2010 –6 May 2014 | |
| In office 15 August 2007 –May 2009 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 4 April 1955 |
| Citizenship | South Africa |
| Political party | African National Congress (since September 2007) |
| Other political affiliations | United Independent Front (until September 2007) |
Zintle Alexia Ndlazi (born 4 April 1955) is a South African politician who served in the National Assembly for two partial terms from 2007 to 2009 and from 2010 to 2014. She joined Parliament as a member of the United Independent Front (UIF) in August 2007 but crossed the floor to the African National Congress (ANC) a month later.
Ndlazi was born on 4 April 1955. [1] She was a member of the UIF,a party formed in 2005 as a breakaway from the United Democratic Movement. She first joined the National Assembly on 15 August 2007,when she was sworn in to fill the seat of Malizole Diko,the UIF's later leader. [2] On 12 September 2007, [2] during the floor-crossing window and less than a month after she was sworn in to her seat,Ndlazi announced that she would join the UIF's only other MP,Nomakhaya Mdaka,in defecting from the UIF to the governing ANC. [3] The UIF described the decision as "politically stage-managed melodramatic grandstanding" and said that floor-crossing "exposes people for what they are,and... rids the party of political ashes". [4]
Ndlazi left Parliament after the 2009 general election. However,on 18 October 2010,she returned for another partial term after the ANC nominated her to fill Mighty Madasa's seat. [5] She vacated the seat again after the 2014 general election. [6]
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