Vuyokazi Ketabahle Explained

Vuyokazi Ketabahle
Office:Member of the National Assembly of South Africa
Term Start:21 January 2015
Term End:31 August 2018
Predecessor:Magdelene Moonsamy
Successor:Yoliswa Yako
Birth Date:2023 1, 49
Birth Place:Idutywa, Cape Province, South Africa
Death Place:Butterworth Hospital, Butterworth, Eastern Cape, South Africa
Party:African National Congress (until 2012; from 2018)
Otherparty:Economic Freedom Fighters (2013–2018)
Profession:Politician

Vuyokazi Ketabahle (1973/1974 – 21 January 2023) was a South African politician who served as a Member of the National Assembly of South Africa for the Economic Freedom Fighters party from January 2015 until August 2018 when she resigned from the party.

Early life

Ketabhle's hometown was Dutywa in the Eastern Cape. She matriculated from JS Skenjane High School.[1]

Political career

Ketabahle started her political career in the Mbhashe Local Municipality, where she became a member of the African National Congress Youth League. Ketabahle resigned from the ANC Youth League after the league's former president Julius Malema was expelled in 2012.[1] She was one of the founding members of Malema's Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) party in 2013; she was then appointed a commissar for home affairs and worked in the Eastern Cape legislature's administration.[1] At the EFF's National People's Assembly in December 2014, she was elected to the party's highest decision-making body, the Central Command Team.[2]

Parliamentary career

On 21 January 2015, Ketabahle was sworn in as an EFF Member of the National Assembly, replacing Magdelene Moonsamy.[3] [4] During her tenure in parliament, she was an alternate member of the Portfolio Committee on Tourism and a member of the Portfolio Committee on Telecommunications and Postal Services. She also briefly served on the Portfolio Committee on Social Development.[1]

Ketabahle resigned from Parliament and the EFF on 31 August 2018 and rejoined her local ANC branch in the Mbhashe municipality. Nelson Mandela Bay EFF councillor Yoliswa Yako took up her seat in the National Assembly.[5]

Death

Ketabahle died following a stroke on 21 January 2023, at the age of 49.[1]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Dayimani . Malibongwe . Former EFF MP Vuyokazi Ketabahle dies . 2023-01-23 . News24 . en-US.
  2. Web site: Our newly elected leadership - EFF . Politicsweb . 6 October 2020.
  3. Web site: Vuyokazi Ketabahle . People's Assembly . 6 October 2020.
  4. News: EFF's Magdalene Moonsamy quits as MP . 6 October 2020 . News24 . 26 January 2015.
  5. News: Ford . Simthandile . It's 'call me MP' after EFF's Yako sworn in at parliament . 6 October 2020 . DispatchLIVE . 12 September 2018.