Party: | African National Congress |
Office1: | Member of the National Assembly |
Termstart1: | April 2004 |
Termend1: | May 2009 |
Citizenship: | South Africa |
Birth Date: | 1 August 1956 |
Birth Name: | Robert Zamxolo Nogumla |
Office2: | Delegate to the National Council of Provinces |
Constituency1: | Eastern Cape |
Constituency Am2: | Eastern Cape |
Termstart2: | May 1994 |
Termend2: | June 1999 |
Robert Zamxolo Nogumla (born 1 August 1956)[1] is a South African politician from the Eastern Cape. A member of the African National Congress (ANC), he served terms in the National Council of Provinces, the National Assembly, and the Eastern Cape Provincial Legislature.
In the 1994 general election, Nogumla was elected to an ANC seat in the Eastern Cape caucus of the Senate of South Africa;[2] he remained in his seat after the Senate was relaunched as the National Council of Provinces under the 1996 Constitution.[3] In the next general election in 1999, he was elected to the Eastern Cape Provincial Legislature,[4] where he served for a single term until, in 2004, he was elected to the National Assembly, representing the Eastern Cape constituency. In 2006, he pled guilty in the trial resulting from the Travelgate scandal.[5]
In 2021 he became mayor of OR Tambo District Municipality. He previously served as deputy mayor.[6]