Thandi Memela (8 January 1939 – 7 January 2021) was a South African politician from

KwaZulu-Natal KwaZulu-Natal (, also referred to as KZN) is a Provinces of South Africa, province of South Africa that was created in 1994 when the government merged the Zulu people, Zulu bantustan of KwaZulu ("Place of the Zulu" in Zulu language, Zulu) and ...

. A member of South Africa's

African National Congress The African National Congress (ANC) is a political party in South Africa. It originated as a liberation movement known for its opposition to apartheid and has governed the country since 1994, when the 1994 South African general election, fir ...

(ANC), she served as a Member of the

National Assembly of South Africa The National Assembly is the directly elected house of the Parliament of South Africa, located in Cape Town, Western Cape. It consists of four hundred members who are elected every five years using a party-list proportional representation sy ...

from 2009 until 2019. She was also the inaugural Deputy President of the

ANC Veterans' League The African National Congress Veterans' League (ANCVL) is an auxiliary political organisation of the African National Congress (ANC) of South Africa. Its members are ANC veterans, defined as people aged 60 or older who have belonged to the ANC f ...

between 2009 and 2017. Memela died in 2021 at the age of 81.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Memela, Thandi 1939 births 2021 deaths African National Congress politicians Members of the National Assembly of South Africa 2014–2019 Politicians from KwaZulu-Natal