Mxolisi Mackson Dimaza is a South African politician and former trade unionist who has represented the African National Congress (ANC) in the Eastern Cape Provincial Legislature for over a decade. He was formerly the Provincial Secretary of the South African Democratic Teachers' Union in the Eastern Cape.

Political career

Dimaza was Provincial Secretary of SADTU in the 2000s.^[1][2][3][4] He was elected to an ANC seat in the Eastern Cape Provincial Legislature in the 2009 general election, ranked 37th on the ANC's provincial party list;^[5] he was re-elected in the 2014 general election, ranked 12th, and in the 2019 general election, ranked 40th.^[6] During his second and third terms in the legislature, he chaired the Portfolio Committee on Health, including during the COVID-19 pandemic.^[6][7]

In early 2021, Dimaza was considered a frontrunner to succeed Sindiswa Gomba as the Eastern Cape's Member of the Executive Council for Health.^[8] He was not appointed, but later that year he was elected to chair the legislature's Standing Committee on Public Accounts.^[6][9]

References

External links

• Mr Mxolisi Mackson Dimaza at People's Assembly