Dingaan Myolwa | |
Honorific-Suffix: | MP |
Office1: | Member of the National Assembly of South Africa |
Term Start1: | 27 January 2021 |
Predecessor1: | Pumza Dyantyi |
Office2: | Member of the Eastern Cape Provincial Legislature |
Term Start2: | 22 October 2013 |
Term End2: | 6 May 2014 |
Predecessor2: | Mkhangeli Matomela |
Birthname: | Dingaan Jacob Myolwa |
Nationality: | South African |
Party: | African National Congress |
Occupation: | Politician |
Committees: | Standing Committee on Auditor General |
Dingaan Jacob Myolwa is a South African politician from the Eastern Cape who is a Member of the National Assembly for the African National Congress (ANC). He was appointed to parliament in 2021. Myolwa had previously served as a member of the Eastern Cape Provincial Legislature from 2013 to 2014 and before that, as mayor of the OR Tambo District Municipality.
Myolwa is a member of the African National Congress.[1] He was a member of Umkhonto we Sizwe and while in exile in Tanzania, he served in a military camp. He has international certificates in Local Government and administration. Myolwa served as an ANC PR councillor in the Ingquza Hill Local Municipality as well as in the OR Tambo District Municipality. He was the mayor of the OR Tambo District until his dismissal in 2013.[2]
Myolwa was sworn in as a member of the Eastern Cape Provincial Legislature for the ANC on 22 October 2013, replacing Mkhangeli Matomela.[3] He was then appointed to serve on the local government & traditional affairs, sport, recreation, arts and culture, economic development and environmental affairs and tourism, public participation and petitions and wellness & enabling facilities committees.
Myolwa stood for the National Assembly of South Africa in the 2014 general election as 23rd on the ANC's list of National Assembly candidates from the Eastern Cape.[4] He was not elected to parliament.[5] Myolwa stood for parliament again in 2019 as 21st on the ANC's list of parliamentary candidates from the Eastern Cape.[6] He was not elected for the second time.[7]
Following the death of Eastern Cape ANC MP Pumza Dyantyi from COVID-19, Myolwa was selected to take up her seat in the National Assembly. He was sworn in on 27 January 2021.[8] [9] He serves on the Standing Committee on Auditor General.[10]