Jomo Nyambi

Archibold Jomo Nyambi (born 28 November 1972) is a South African politician from Mpumalanga. He has been House Chairperson of Committees in the National Council of Provinces (NCOP) since 2014. Before joining the NCOP in 2009, he served in the National Assembly from 2006 to 2009.

Nyambi is a member of the African National Congress (ANC). A teacher by training, he rose to political prominence through the ANC Youth League and South African Students Congress in Mpumalanga.

Early political career Born on 28 November 1972, Nyambi became politically engaged in around 1988 as a student at Mjokwane Secondary School in Kamaqhekeza in the former kaNgwane bantustan (now part of Mpumalanga). He was the president of the school's student representative council and was influenced by his elder brother, who went into exile with the anti-apartheid movement.

After leaving high school, Nyambi qualified as a teacher and taught at schools in his home village, while remaining active in politics. At the next general election in 2009, he was elected to represent Mpumalanga as a Permanent Delegate to the National Council of Provinces (NCOP). He was also elected to chair the NCOP's Select Committee on Petitions and Members' Legislative Proposals, a position he held throughout the 25th Parliament. though he lost to Ngrayi Ngwenya, the favoured candidate of Mpumalanga Premier David Mabuza.

Nyambi was re-elected to his seat in the NCOP in 2014 and 2019. In May 2023, he was elected as co-chairperson of Parliament's Joint Ad Hoc Committee on Flood Disaster Relief and Recovery, established to oversee government's response to the 2023 South African floods; he shared the chair with Cedric Frolick, his counterpart in the National Assembly.