Luwellyn Landers

Born on 28 December 1947, Landers was born and raised on his grandfather's farm in the former Natal Province (now KwaZulu-Natal). He attended the University of South Africa. He represented the party in the House of Representatives, the Coloured house of the apartheid-era Tricameral Parliament, and he also served as a deputy minister in the cabinet of President P. W. Botha of the National Party. He left the Labour Party in September 1993, becoming one of several party leaders to defect to the African National Congress (ANC) ahead of the 1994 general election. == Ordinary Member of the National Assembly: 1994–2014 ==

In the democratic elections of April 1994, Landers was elected to represent the ANC in the National Assembly, the lower house of the new South African Parliament. He remained in his seat for the next 25 years, gaining re-election to five consecutive terms. In late 2003 Richard Calland noted critically that under Landers the committee's "new default position" was to meet in closed session; he suggested that Landers's approach might have been negatively influenced by his time in the secretive intelligence committee. He continued to serve in the chair during the Third Parliament, nominated to continue by the ANC after the 2004 general election and formally re-elected as chairman at a meeting in June 2004. During this time he was also a member of the ANC's internal National Disciplinary Committee, and he was a member of the panel that expelled chief whip Mbulelo Goniwe from the party in December 2006. After the 2009 general election, Landers was elected to his third term as chairman of the parliamentary ethics committee. In terms of new parliamentary rules, he served alongside a new co-chairman from the upper house of Parliament, the National Council of Provinces; Buoang Mashile was elected to that role at the committee's first meeting in August 2009. Justice committee In November 2010, the ANC announced a major reshuffle of the parliamentary caucus, in which Landers was nominated to succeed Ngoako Ramatlhodi as chairman of the justice committee, by then renamed the Portfolio Committee on Justice and Constitutional Development. He had remained an ordinary member of that committee since its establishment.'''''' After the Secrecy Bill was passed, Landers was one of seven ANC representatives nominated to serve on the ad hoc committee that would consider the Public Protector's report on Nkandlagate. He was also a member of the ad hoc committee on the judicial conduct code, and he was attached to the ANC's constituency office in Pinetown South, KwaZulu-Natal. == Deputy Minister of International Relations and Cooperation: 2014–2019 ==

, President of El Salvador, 31 March 2017 On 25 May 2014, announcing his second-term cabinet, President Jacob Zuma named Landers as Deputy Minister of International Relations and Cooperation. He was one of two deputy ministers in the portfolio, the other being Nomaindia Mfeketo, and both deputised Minister Maite Nkoana-Mashabane. In a midterm presidential election in February 2018, Cyril Ramaphosa replaced Zuma as president, and in his new cabinet he fired both Minister Nkoana-Mashabane and Deputy Minister Mfeketo. However, Ramaphosa retained Landers as deputy minister, now serving alongside Reginah Mhaule and under Lindiwe Sisulu. Indeed, Landers represented South Africa at the United Nations Human Rights Council later in February 2018. In the next general election in May 2019, Landers ceded his seat in the National Assembly. == Death ==

On 25 November 2023, the Department of International Relations and Cooperation announced that Landers had died. A spokesman said that the circumstances of his death were not clear. ==References==