Lulama Ngcukayitobi (born December 1972)[1] is a South African politician from the Eastern Cape. He has been the provincial secretary of the African National Congress (ANC) in the Eastern Cape since October 2017.
Lulama Ngcukayitobi | |
|---|---|
| Provincial Secretary of the Eastern Cape African National Congress | |
| Assumed office 1 October 2017 | |
| Deputy | Helen Sauls-August |
| Chairperson | Oscar Mabuyane |
| Personal details | |
| Born | December 1972 (age 52) |
| Political party | African National Congress |
| Relations | Tembeka Ngcukaitobi (brother) |
Tenure as provincial secretary
Ngcukayitobi was elected as ANC provincial secretary on 1 October 2017 during a chaotic party conference that became infamous as the "festival of chairs"; his election was unopposed after the other candidate, Andile Lungisa, became indisposed during the chaos.[2] He was re-elected in May 2022, receiving 807 votes against the 667 cast for Teris Ntutu.[3] He ran on the slate of provincial chairperson Oscar Mabuyane.[4]
In June 2024, in the aftermath of the recent general election, Ngcukayitobi announced and then rescinded his resignation from the party leadership.[5][6] The Sunday Times reported that he had been opposed to the ANC's participation in a national coalition with the Democratic Alliance, but that ANC leaders Gwede Mantashe and Fikile Mbalula had persuaded him to stay on.[7]
He is considered a possible candidate to succeed Mabuyane as provincial chairperson in 2026.[8]
Personal life
Ngcukayitobi was born in December 1972.[1] He is from a prominent family in Cala, Eastern Cape; his brother, Tembeka Ngcukaitobi, is a prominent lawyer.[9] Their mother, Nomsa, was a domestic worker, a teacher at a school for the disabled, and then a nurse, and their father, Gcinabantu Hutchinson, was a mineworker in Johannesburg and then a clerk at the Magistrate's Court in Cofimvaba.[10] Ngcukayitobi launched the Gcinabantu Hutchison Ngcukayitobi Foundation in Cala in December 2022.[1]
References
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