Zolile Williams

Zolile Albert Williams (born 30 July 1973) is a South African politician who is currently serving as the Eastern Cape's Member of the Executive Council (MEC) for Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs. He was appointed to that position in August 2022, several weeks after he was elected Provincial Treasurer of the Eastern Cape branch of his political party, the African National Congress (ANC).

Williams is from Lady Grey in the present-day Eastern Cape. Until 2022, Williams served for two decades as the municipal manager at the Joe Gqabi District Municipality. The Business Day said that during Williams's tenure Joe Gqabi was "one of the Eastern Cape’s best-performing municipalities in terms of audit outcomes" He was elected to the ANC Provincial Treasurer office at a party elective conference in May 2022, beating Andile Lungisa with 799 votes to Lungisa's 673. He did not appear on the draft ballot paper but was nominated for the position from the floor of the conference. He was viewed as belonging to a slate of candidates aligned to Oscar Mabuyane, who won re-election as ANC Provincial Chairperson at the same conference. The following day, Mabuyane announced a reshuffle of the provincial government, appointing Williams to succeed Xolile Nqatha as MEC for Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs.