Nandi Mayathula-Khoza

Mayathula-Khoza was born and raised in Senaoane in Soweto in the former Transvaal, now part of Gauteng province. Her parents are Monica Mayathula, a school teacher, and Reverend Castro Mayathula, a Black Consciousness activist. She participated in the 1976 Soweto uprising and in 1977 went into exile in Swaziland. She finished high school in Swaziland and completed a Bachelor of Science at Kwaluseni University; she later received a Bachelor of Education from Wits University. In the late 1980s, after her parents died, she returned to South Africa, where she was involved in the anti-apartheid movement. She formally joined the African National Congress (ANC) after it was unbanned in the 1990s. She also worked as a teacher and then as a community development facilitator. == Political career ==

When apartheid ended in 1994, Mayathula-Khoza was elected to represent the ANC as a councillor in Johannesburg. She was later elected as Mayor of Soweto in 1997 and as inaugural Speaker of the City of Johannesburg council in 2000. She chaired the board of Rand Water for four years. and newly elected Premier David Makhura appointed her MEC for Infrastructure Development in his new Executive Council. On 2 February 2016, Makhura announced a reshuffle in which Mayathula-Khoza was moved to the social development portfolio. Mayathula-Khoza did not seek re-election to the provincial legislature in the 2019 general election; she said that she intended to leave government to complete a Master's degree and establish a charitable foundation, although she remained active in her local ANC branch, Gauteng's Mzala branch. In May 2021, she was appointed chairperson of the board of the Central Drug Authority. == Personal life ==

As of 2009, Mayathula-Khoza was married and had four children. == References ==