Celiwe Madlopha Explained

Office:Member of the KwaZulu-Natal Provincial Legislature
Party:African National Congress
Citizenship:South Africa
Termstart:22 May 2019
Honorific Suffix:MPL
Office1:Member of the National Assembly
Termstart1:17 November 2010
Constituency1:KwaZulu-Natal
Termend1:7 May 2019
Otherparty:South African Communist Party

Celiwe Qhamkile Madlopha is a South African politician who has represented the African National Congress (ANC) in the KwaZulu-Natal Provincial Legislature since 2019. Before that, she was a Member of the National Assembly between 2010 and 2019. She is also a former Provincial Chairperson of the ANC Women's League in KwaZulu-Natal.

Political career

Madlopha was active in the Congress of South African Students in her youth in the 1980s.[1] She was formerly the Deputy Mayor of Umhlathuze Local Municipality[2] [3] and she was sworn in to an ANC seat in the National Assembly in November 2010.[4] In March 2012, she was elected Provincial Chairperson of the KwaZulu-Natal branch of the ANC Women's League in a fierce contest with the outgoing chairperson, Lungi Mnganga-Gcabashe; Nonhlanhla Khoza was elected alongside her as Provincial Secretary.

She was re-elected to her first full term in Parliament in the 2014 general election, ranked third on the ANC's regional party list for KwaZulu-Natal. However, she left her ANC Women's League office in September 2017, when Khoza was elected to succeed her.[5]

In the 2019 general election, Madlopha did not stand for re-election to the national Parliament, but instead was elected to a seat in the KwaZulu-Natal Provincial Legislature, ranked 39th on the ANC's provincial party list. She remained active in the ANC – her local regional branch was the Musa Dladla branch in King Cetshwayo District[6] – and in July 2022 she was elected to a four-year term on the Provincial Executive Committee of the party's KwaZulu-Natal branch.[7] In addition, she was elected to three consecutive five-year terms as a member of the Central Committee of the South African Communist Party, in 2012,[8] 2017, and 2022.[9]

Personal life

She was married to Bonginkosi Elphas Madlopha, a Christian minister and a local leader in the ANC and the South African National Civic Organisation.[10] He died in February 2014 shortly after he and his wife arrived in Cape Town for the 2014 State of the Nation Address.

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: 2018-10-01 . Dr Celiwe Madlopha (ANC) . 2023-01-26 . People's Assembly . en.
  2. Web site: Jenkins . Chris . 8 November 2006 . Mbatha re-elected as uMhlathuze's speaker . 2023-01-26 . IOL . en.
  3. Web site: Naidoo . Nalini . 2012-03-25 . ANCWL: Tension at elective conference . 2023-01-26 . Witness . en.
  4. Web site: Celiwe Qhamkile Madlopha . 2023-01-26 . People's Assembly . en.
  5. Web site: 4 September 2017 . KZN ANCWL elects new leadership . 2023-01-26 . ECR.
  6. News: 29 July 2022 . Local ANC branch supports leadership . Zululand Observer . 26 January 2023 . PressReader.
  7. Web site: 25 July 2022 . Ex-chair Sihle Zikalala fails to make it into ANC KZN provincial executive committee . 2023-01-26 . Sowetan . en-ZA.
  8. Web site: Previous Central Committee Members . 2023-01-26 . South African Communist Party.
  9. Web site: Current Central Committee . 2023-01-26 . South African Communist Party.
  10. Web site: 2014-02-19 . Condolences pour in for ANC stalwart . 2023-01-26 . Zululand Observer . en-US.

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