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Zwakele Mncwango

Zwakele Mncwango

Zwakele Mncwango (born 1978) is a South African politician from KwaZulu-Natal.

Born
1978 (47 years), Nongoma
Party
ActionSA
Political position

Centre-right · Where sources place the party (ActionSA)
Wikipedia: centre-right (ActionSA)
Ideology: classical liberalism, non-racialism, anti-corruption, South African nationalism

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He is the provincial chairperson of ActionSA, which he joined in 2022 after years in the Democratic Alliance, where he led the party in the province and the opposition in the provincial legislature. ActionSA named him its candidate for mayor of eThekwini (Durban) in the 4 November 2026 municipal election.

Career

Wikipedia gives Mncwango's birth as 27 November 1978 in Nongoma. He was elected an eThekwini councillor in 2011 and led the Democratic Alliance caucus in the metro from 2013 to 2018, resigning as councillor in March 2018. He was the DA's KwaZulu-Natal provincial leader from 2015 to 2021, sat in the provincial legislature from 2018 to 2022, and was Leader of the Opposition there from June 2018 to May 2019. He was the DA's premier candidate in 2019. He left the DA in 2022 and became ActionSA's provincial chairperson in October 2022.

Positions

Daily Maverick's profile of the eThekwini candidates lists his promises as restoring basic services and rebuilding infrastructure, providing political stability, insourcing essential municipal services, dealing with illegal immigration, creating jobs and cutting water losses. Wikipedia places ActionSA in the centre-right and lists classical liberalism, non-racialism and anti-corruption among its ideas.

Summarised automatically from the linked sources. Wikipedia · Daily Maverick · eNCA · Wikipedia (ActionSA)

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Mayor of eThekwini (Durban)?

OutcomeLeft – RightAgeProbability
Haniff HoosenCentre35%
Apostle Mxolisi Phakathi29%
Thabani Nyawose17%
Philani Mavundla10%
Mkhuleko HlengwaRight398%
Zandile Hlophe-MkhwanaziLeft7%
Cyril XabaCentre5%
Zandile GumedeLeft651%
Maggie Govender<1%
Hlengiwe Mkhaliphi<1%
Nomusa Dube-NcubeCentre<1%
Zwakele MncwangoCentre-right47<1%

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