Fidel Mlombo

Fana Vincent "Fidel" Mlombo (born 21 December 1964) is a South African politician and trade unionist who served as Mpumalanga's Member of the Executive Council (MEC) for Culture, Sports and Recreation from June until September 2024 and has represented the African National Congress (ANC) in the Mpumalanga Provincial Legislature since August 2016. He was formerly the Provincial Secretary of the Mpumalanga branch of the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) from 2009 to 2016, and he has also served in the provincial executive of the South African Communist Party (SACP).

Trade union career Mlombo entered politics in 1985 when he joined COSATU. At that time he was also a member of the Provincial Executive Committee of the SACP in Mpumalanga. As of 2022, he was the Majority Chief Whip in the provincial legislature, with Million Makaringe as his deputy.

Following the 2024 general election, Mlombo joined the provincial government as the Member of the Executive Council (MEC) for Culture, Sports and Recreation. Less than three months, he resigned as an MEC and was replaced with Leah Mabuza after the National Executive Committee of the African National Congress instructed premier Mandla Ndlovu to fire one of his male MECs and replace them with a woman in order for his executive council to be compliant with their gender policy that if a province has a male premier, 60% of the members of the executive council must be women.