Royith Baloo Bhoola is a South African politician who represented the

Minority Front The Minority Front is a political party in South Africa. The party represents all minorities of South Africa, however, its support comes mainly from the South African Indian community. Its voter base is in the province of KwaZulu-Natal. The ...

(MF) in 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 sys ...

from 2004 to 2014. Born in

Pietermaritzburg Pietermaritzburg (; Zulu: umGungundlovu) is the capital and second-largest city in the province of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. It was founded in 1838 and is currently governed by the Msunduzi Local Municipality. Its Zulu name umGungundlovu ...

KwaZulu-Natal KwaZulu-Natal (, also referred to as KZN and known as "the garden province") is a province of South Africa that was created in 1994 when the Zulu bantustan of KwaZulu ("Place of the Zulu" in Zulu) and Natal Province were merged. It is loca ...

, he joined the Minority Front in 1999 and served as a local councillor in

Umdoni Local Municipality uMdoni Local Municipality is an administrative area in the Ugu District of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa. Umdoni is an isiZulu name for the indigenous tree, Mdoni (''Syzgium gerrardi''). Main places The 2001 census divided the municipality int ...

. He was elected to the National Assembly in the 2004 general election and was elected to a second term in the 2009 general election. During his second term, and until the party lost all of its seats in the 2014 election, he was the only representative of the Minority Front in the assembly.

Allegations of corruption

In 2004 it was alleged that he had negotiated a deal to sell his parliamentary seat to long-time friend Mohamed Sadek Mansoo.

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{{KwaZuluNatal-politician-stub People from Pietermaritzburg