Dikeledi Gladys Mahlangu

Dikeledi Gladys Mahlangu is a South African politician who is currently serving as Chairperson of the Select Committee on Appropriations in the National Council of Provinces. She formerly represented her party, the African National Congress, in the National Assembly from 2014 to 2019. Before that, she was a Member of the Mpumalanga Provincial Legislature and from 2009 to 2014 she served in the Mpumalanga Executive Council under Premier David Mabuza.

Political career In the 1990s, Mahlangu was a local leader of the African National Congress (ANC) and National Education, Health and Allied Workers' Union in KwaMhlanga in Mpumalanga. On 19 July 2011, Mabuza announced that Mahlangu would swop portfolios with Clifford Mkasi, becoming MEC for Public Works, Roads and Transport. While she was in that portfolio, in 2012, Mahlangu was elected for the first time to the Provincial Executive Committee of the ANC's Mpumalanga branch. After a full legislative term in the National Assembly, Mahlangu was elected to the National Council of Provinces (NCOP) in the 2019 general election. She was elected Chairperson on 2 July 2019, and also in July was elected Co-Chairperson of Parliament's Joint Standing Committee on the Financial Management of Parliament.