Dolly Caroline Ledwaba is a South African politician who has represented the

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) in the

Gauteng Provincial Legislature The Gauteng Provincial Legislature is the legislature of the South African province of Gauteng. It is a unicameral body of 80 members elected every five years. The current legislature, the seventh, was 2019 Gauteng provincial election, elected on ...

since 2019. She formerly represented the ANC as a local councillor in the

City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality The City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality (; ; ), also known as the City of Tshwane (), is the Metropolitan municipality (South Africa), metropolitan municipality that forms the local government of northern Gauteng in South Africa. The metro ...

Political career

Ledwaba served three terms in the Tshwane council – one term as a proportional-representation councillor and two terms as a ward councillor for Ward 33 in

Soshanguve Soshanguve is a township situated about 30 km north of Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa, just east of Mabopane. The name Soshanguve is an acronym for Sotho, Shangaan, Nguni and Venda, thus showing the multi-ethnic composition of the populat ...

. In July 2018, she was elected to a four-year term on the Provincial Executive Committee of the ANC's provincial branch in

Gauteng Gauteng ( , ; Sotho-Tswana languages, Sotho-Tswana for 'place of gold'; or ) is one of the nine provinces of South Africa. Situated on the Highveld, Gauteng is the smallest province by land area in South Africa. Although Gauteng accounts f ...

. The following year, in the 2019 general election, she was elected for the first time to a seat in the Gauteng Provincial Legislature, ranked 28th on the ANC's provincial party list. She was not re-elected to the Provincial Executive Committee in 2022.

Personal life

Ledwaba's daughter, Lerato Aphane, is a local politician in Tshwane.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Ledwaba, Dolly African National Congress politicians Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Members of the Gauteng Provincial Legislature 21st-century South African politicians