Nonkululeko Gcume Explained

Nonkululeko Gcume
Office1:Member of the National Assembly of South Africa
Term Start1:6 May 2009
Term End1:April 2014
Party:African Transformation Movement (2019–present)
Otherparty:African National Congress (Until 2008; 2014–2019)
Congress of the People (2008–2014)
Profession:Politician

Nonkululeko Prudence Gcume is a South African politician who served as a Member of Parliament (MP) for the Congress of the People from 2009 to 2014.

Political career

Gcume was a member of the African National Congress until she resigned to join the ANC breakaway party, the Congress of the People in 2008. She was appointed co-convenor of the party's women's league. In late-November 2008, Gcume's house in Lusikisiki, near Port St Johns in the Eastern Cape, was set on fire amid political violence in the province in the run-up to the 2009 general elections.[1]

Gcume was elected to the National Assembly of South Africa in the election as COPE won 30 seats.[2] During her tenure in the National Assembly, she sat on the Portfolio Committee on Social Development.[3] In February 2014, COPE Secretary-General Lyndall Shope-Mafole wrote to Gcume and other COPE MPs asking them to provide proof that they were fully paid-up party members in good standing.[4]

Prior to the 2014 general election, Gcume and four other former COPE MPs were officially welcomed back into the ANC during a ceremony at the party's provincial headquarters in King William's Town on 30 April 2014.[5]

Gcume later left the ANC again and joined the newly formed African Transformation Movement, standing unsuccessfully stood for parliament in the 2019 general election as a candidate on the party's Eastern Cape regional-to-national list.[3]

Notes and References

  1. News: Shoba . Sibongakonke . 3 December 2008 . South Africa: Eastern Cape in Eye of Poll Whirlwind . Business Day . subscription . 3 April 2023.
  2. Web site: COPE MPs elected to national assembly on April 22 - DOCUMENTS Politicsweb . 2023-04-03 . www.politicsweb.co.za . en.
  3. Web site: Nonkululeko Prudence Gcume . 2023-04-03 . People's Assembly . en.
  4. Web site: 2014-02-20 . Cope MPs and MPLs prepare to jump ship . 2023-04-03 . The Mail & Guardian . en-ZA.
  5. Web site: COPE five return to 'flawed' ANC fold . 2023-04-03 . DispatchLIVE . en-ZA.