Nomvuzo Francisca Shabalala

Nomvuzo Francisca Shabalala (29 April 196026 December 2020) was a South African politician. She was a member of the African National Congress and the South African Communist Party. From 2011 to 2016 she was the deputy mayor of the eThekwini Metropolitan Municipality. In 2018, Shabalala was sworn in as a member of the National Assembly.

Education Shabalala was born on 29 April 1960. She only fulfilled grade eleven while she attended school. She studied programming and word processing at Mangosuthu Technikon and then waste management at the Natal Technikon. The next year, she was elected to the ANC's Provincial Executive Committee. In August 2016, Fawzia Peer was elected to succeed her as deputy mayor of eThekwini. Shabalala was elected to the Central Committee of the SACP at the party's 14th national congress in July 2017. On 14 August 2018, Shabalala was sworn in as a Member of Parliament in the National Assembly. She was then made an alternate member of the Portfolio Committee on Home Affairs and a member of the Portfolio Committee on Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs. Nomalungelo Gina replaced her as deputy provincial chair of the SACP at its provincial congress later on in August 2018.

At the May 2019 general election, Shabalala was elected to a full term as a parliamentarian. She was then assigned to the Joint Committee on Ethics and Members Interests and the Portfolio Committee on Basic Education.