Jabulile Mkhwanazi

Jabulile Cynthia Nightingale Mkhwanazi (born 27 February 1975) is a South African African National Congress politician who served as a Member of the National Assembly of South Africa from KwaZulu-Natal from 2019 until 2024.

Political career Mkhwanazi served as an African National Congress proportional representation councillor (PR) in the Newcastle Local Municipality.

Politics For the general election on May 8, 2019, Mkhwanazi was the twelfth candidate on the ANC's list of National Assembly candidates from KwaZulu-Natal. The ANC won 24 regional seats in KwaZulu-Natal and Mkhwanazi was elected to the National Assembly. She was sworn into office on May 22, during the first sitting of the National Assembly following the election. Mkhwanazi became a member of the Portfolio Committee on Public Enterprises on 27 June 2019.

In 2019, she had an 88% committee attendance rate as a Member of Parliament (14 meetings out of 16) and in 2020, she had a 92% committee attendance rate (24 meetings out of 26).

Mkhwanazi did not stand in the 2024 general election and left parliament.