Celiwe Madlopha
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Member of the KwaZulu-Natal Provincial Legislature
Assumed office
22 May 2019
Member of the National Assembly
In office
17 November 2010 – 7 May 2019
ConstituencyKwaZulu-Natal
Personal details
CitizenshipSouth Africa
Political partyAfrican National Congress
Other political
affiliations		South African Communist Party

Celiwe Qhamkile Madlopha is a South African politician who has represented the African National Congress (ANC) in the KwaZulu-Natal Provincial Legislature since 2019. Before that, she was a Member of the National Assembly between 2010 and 2019. She is also a former Provincial Chairperson of the ANC Women's League in KwaZulu-Natal.

Political career

Madlopha was active in the Congress of South African Students in her youth in the 1980s.[1] She was formerly the Deputy Mayor of Umhlathuze Local Municipality[2][3] and she was sworn in to an ANC seat in the National Assembly in November 2010.[1][4] In March 2012, she was elected Provincial Chairperson of the KwaZulu-Natal branch of the ANC Women's League in a fierce contest with the outgoing chairperson, Lungi Mnganga-Gcabashe; Nonhlanhla Khoza was elected alongside her as Provincial Secretary.[3]

She was re-elected to her first full term in Parliament in the 2014 general election, ranked third on the ANC's regional party list for KwaZulu-Natal.[4] However, she left her ANC Women's League office in September 2017, when Khoza was elected to succeed her.[5]

In the 2019 general election, Madlopha did not stand for re-election to the national Parliament, but instead was elected to a seat in the KwaZulu-Natal Provincial Legislature, ranked 39th on the ANC's provincial party list.[4] She remained active in the ANC – her local regional branch was the Musa Dladla branch in King Cetshwayo District[6] – and in July 2022 she was elected to a four-year term on the Provincial Executive Committee of the party's KwaZulu-Natal branch.[7] In addition, she was elected to three consecutive five-year terms as a member of the Central Committee of the South African Communist Party, in 2012,[8] 2017, and 2022.[9]

Personal life

She was married to Bonginkosi Elphas Madlopha, a Christian minister and a local leader in the ANC and the South African National Civic Organisation.[10] He died in February 2014 shortly after he and his wife arrived in Cape Town for the 2014 State of the Nation Address.[10]

References

  1. 1 2 "Dr Celiwe Madlopha (ANC)". People's Assembly. 1 October 2018. Retrieved 26 January 2023.
  2. ↑ Jenkins, Chris (8 November 2006). "Mbatha re-elected as uMhlathuze's speaker". IOL. Retrieved 26 January 2023.
  3. 1 2 Naidoo, Nalini (25 March 2012). "ANCWL: Tension at elective conference". Witness. Retrieved 26 January 2023.
  4. 1 2 3 "Celiwe Qhamkile Madlopha". People's Assembly. Retrieved 26 January 2023.
  5. ↑ "KZN ANCWL elects new leadership". ECR. 4 September 2017. Retrieved 26 January 2023.
  6. ↑ "Local ANC branch supports leadership". Zululand Observer. 29 July 2022. Retrieved 26 January 2023 – via PressReader.
  7. ↑ "Ex-chair Sihle Zikalala fails to make it into ANC KZN provincial executive committee". Sowetan. 25 July 2022. Retrieved 26 January 2023.
  8. ↑ "Previous Central Committee Members". South African Communist Party. Retrieved 26 January 2023.
  9. ↑ "Current Central Committee". South African Communist Party. Retrieved 26 January 2023.
  10. 1 2 "Condolences pour in for ANC stalwart". Zululand Observer. 19 February 2014. Retrieved 26 January 2023.
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