Party: | Inkatha Freedom Party |
Office1: | Member of the National Assembly |
Termstart1: | 1 April 2001 |
Termend1: | August 2002 |
Citizenship: | South Africa |
Constituency1: | KwaZulu-Natal |
Olaf Baloyi is a South African politician and civil servant. He represented the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) in the National Assembly from 2001 to 2002, serving the KwaZulu-Natal constituency. Thereafter he was a member of the KwaZulu-Natal Provincial Legislature from 2002 to 2004.
Before entering legislative politics, Baloyi was a deputy director-general in the KwaZulu-Natal Department of Health.[1] He was not initially elected to the National Assembly in the 1999 general election but he joined during the legislative term; he was sworn in on 1 April 2001 to fill the casual vacancy arising from Buyisiwe Nzimande's resignation.[2] He also headed the IFP's directorate on HIV/AIDS.[3]
In June 2002, the Mail & Guardian reported that Baloyi was likely to be transferred from the National Assembly to the KwaZulu-Natal Provincial Legislature; with a floor-crossing window approaching and the IFP in danger of losing its control of the province, it planned to ensure that its provincial caucus was peopled with maximally loyally members.[4] Indeed, in August 2002, Baloyi resigned from the National Assembly and, on 13 August, he was sworn in to the provincial legislature. He left after the 2004 general election.