Hlengiwe Mgabadeli

Hlengiwe Christophina Mgabadeli is a South African politician who represented the African National Congress (ANC) in the National Assembly from 2004 to 2014. During her second term in the assembly, from 2009 to 2014, she represented the KwaZulu-Natal constituency and chaired Parliament's Joint Standing Committee on Defence.

Legislative career Mgabadeli was elected to an ANC seat in the National Assembly in the 2004 general election. She was re-elected in the next general election in 2009, and the ANC additionally nominated her to chair Parliament's Joint Standing Committee on Defence. In the 2014 general election, she was ranked 32nd on the ANC's provincial party list for KwaZulu-Natal and therefore failed to gain re-election.