Elvis Siwela | |
Office: | Member of the National Assembly of South Africa |
Constituency: | Mpumalanga |
Term Start: | 22 May 2019 |
Term End: | 1 April 2023 |
Successor: | Lydia Moroane |
Term Start1: | 21 May 2014 |
Term End1: | 20 September 2017 |
Constituency1: | Mpumalanga |
Successor1: | Gijimani Skosana |
Birthname: | Elvis Kholwana Siwela |
Party: | African National Congress |
Alma Mater: | Regenesys Business School |
Profession: | Politician |
Elvis Kholwana Siwela is a South African politician who was an African National Congress Member of the National Assembly of South Africa from 2014 to 2017 and again from 2019 until 2023.
Siwela earned a master's degree in Public Management from Regenesys Business School. He served on the provincial executive committee (PEC) of the African National Congress in Mpumalanga.[1]
In 2014 he was elected to the National Assembly of South Africa from the ANC's Mpumalanga list.[2] Siwela was appointed to serve on the Portfolio Committee on Telecommunications and Postal Services and the Portfolio Committee on Higher Education and Training.[1] In September 2017, he resigned from the National Assembly.
Siwela was elected back to the National Assembly in the May 8, 2019 general election.[3] He was then appointed to the Portfolio Committee on Basic Education. In October 2019, he questioned whether the grade 9 certificate should be issued to all pupils and at what cost.[4] In August 2021, he became a member of the Portfolio Committee on Health.[5]
Siwela resigned from Parliament with effect from 1 April 2023.[6]