Makhosi Khoza

Makhosi Khoza
Deputy President of the Abantu Batho Congress
Assumed office
13 February 2024
PresidentPhilani Mavundla
Chairperson of the eThekwini Metropolitan
Municipal Public Accounts Commission
[1]
In office
24 December 2021 – 23 March 2022
Succeeded byMusa Kubheka
Member of the eThekwini City Council
In office
November 2021 – March 2022
Succeeded byBusi Radebe
Provincial Chairperson of ActionSA
in KwaZulu-Natal
In office
29 August 2020 – 24 December 2021
PresidentHerman Mashaba
Preceded byPosition established
Succeeded byMusa Kubheka
Leader of the African Democratic Change
In office
1 December 2017 – 22 April 2018
Preceded byPosition established
Succeeded byMoses Mayekiso
Chairperson of the Public Service and Administration Committee of the National Assembly of South Africa
In office
17 February 2017 – 4 September 2017
Succeeded byJoe Maswanganyi
Member of the National Assembly of South Africa
In office
21 May 2014 – 21 September 2017
ConstituencyKwaZulu-Natal
Member of the KwaZulu-Natal Legislature
In office
April 1994 – May 2014
Personal details
Born
Makhosi Busisiwe Khoza

1970 (age 53–54)
Pietermaritzburg, Natal, South Africa (now KwaZulu-Natal)
CitizenshipSouth Africa
Political partyAbantu Batho Congress
(2024-present)
Other political
affiliations
Spouse(s)Ntela Sikhosana (until death; 1998)
Residence(s)Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
Alma mater
Occupation
  • Politician
  • legislator
  • public speaker
  • activist
Known forFounder of the African Democratic Change (2017)[2]

Makhosi Busisiwe Khoza is a South African politician who was the ActionSA candidate for Mayor of eThekwini in the 2021 municipal elections.[3] She was previously an ANC Member of Parliament (MP) who served as chairperson of the Portfolio Committee on Public Service and Administration and on the Portfolio Committee on Economic Development. She became known for calling on then president Jacob Zuma to step down.[4] In 1996, she was appointed as the deputy mayor of the Pietermaritzburg Local Municipality, at the age of 26.[5]

  1. ^ "DR MAKHOSI KHOZA APPOINTED NEW CHAIR OF THE MUNICIPAL PUBLIC ACCOUNTS COMMITTEE IN KZN". Power987. Retrieved 28 April 2023.
  2. ^ "MAKHOSI KHOZA LAUNCHES POLITICAL PARTY: AFRICAN DEMOCRATIC CHANGE". Power987. Retrieved 28 April 2023.
  3. ^ "Dr Makhosi Khoza Runs for Mayor – Together, we can FIX eThekwini". ActionSA. Retrieved 28 April 2023.
  4. ^ Bendile, Dineo (20 July 2017). "ANC MP Makhosi Khoza: I'm not going to apologise. If they kill me, so be it". Mail & Guardian. Retrieved 2 September 2017.
  5. ^ "PUBLIC PROTECTOR AD HOC COMMITTEE ELECTS DR MAKHOSI KHOZA AS CHAIRPERSON". Parliament of the Republic of South Africa. Retrieved 27 April 2023.