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Nomvuzo Francisca Shabalala. (Parliament.gov.za)
- African National Congress The member of the central committee of the SACP deputy, Nomvuzo Francisca Shabalala, has died.
- Shabalala, 60, died Saturday after being hospitalized last week.
- She served on the Basic Education Portfolio Committee. He also served on the Joint Parliamentary Committee on Ethics and Interests of Members.
ANC deputy and member of the SACP central committee, Nomvuzo Francisca Shabalala, died.
Shabalala, 60, died Saturday after being hospitalized last week.
He served on the Portfolio Committee on Basic Education and on the Joint Parliamentary Committee on Ethics and Member Interests.
Reacting to his death, SACP Secretary General Dr. Blade Nzimande said: “On behalf of the SACP central committee and all party members, I wish to convey our message of deepest condolences to the Shabalala family for the great loss suffered “.
Shabalala served as a member of the central committee of the SACP, the party’s highest decision-making body when its national congress, which meets every five years, is not in session.
She was elected to the committee by the XIV National Congress of the SACP in July 2017.
At the time, she was the provincial vice president of the SACP in KwaZulu-Natal, a position she held from 2015 to 2018.
SACP spokesman Dr. Alex Mashilo said that at the time of her death, Shabalala was serving as an ANC deputy.
“Her parliamentary work began in 2018. She was re-elected during the May 2019 general election. Prior to that date, she served as councilor and deputy mayor of the eThekwini metropolitan municipality. The eThekhwini metropolitan municipality government was quite strong under her leadership and that of James Nxumalo as mayor in the difficult circumstances they and the entire council and municipality faced.
“The SACP in Moses Mabhida Province (KZN) benefited from Shabalala’s leadership as a member of the SAPC Provincial Executive Committee since 2012. In the early 2000s, she was Deputy Secretary of the ANC Durban South region.
“His early political activism combined the struggle through trade unionism against exploitation and the struggle against apartheid racial oppression and gender domination. He was an activist for the Commercial, Catering and Allied Workers Union of South Africa (CCAWUSA), which later It was renamed the South African Commercial, Catering and Allied Workers Union (SACCAWU) in 1989, “Mashilo said.
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Shabalala was an activist for the United Democratic Front (UDF) and a distributor for Speak magazine.
In memory of Shabalala, the SACP reiterates its unconditional support for strengthening the progressive women’s movement and intensifying the struggle to end economic exploitation and patriarchy and to dismantle racism in our society.
“It is an essential part of this fight to confront the networks of neoliberalism, its austerity agenda and the state capture and plunder of public resources,” said Mashilo.
