Bavelile Gloria Hlongwa was a South African chemical engineer and politician from KwaZulu-Natal and a party member of the African National Congress.
21 Facts About Bavelile Hlongwa
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Bavelile Hlongwa was the Deputy Minister of Mineral Resources and Energy and a Member of the National Assembly of South Africa from May 2019 until her death in September 2019.
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Bavelile Gloria Hlongwa was born 4 April 1981 in the town of Umzinto in the previous Natal Province.
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Bavelile Hlongwa began her schooling career at Ncazuka Primary School in 1989 and matriculated from Sihle High School in 2000.
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Bavelile Hlongwa studied at the University of KwaZulu-Natal Howard College campus and achieved a Bachelor of Science degree in chemical engineering.
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Bavelile Hlongwa was pursuing a master's degree in public administration at the time of her death.
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Bavelile Hlongwa was appointed to serve on the Local Community Development Committee in 1999.
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Bavelile Hlongwa was elected to the South African Institute of Chemical Engineers in 2011, and, in 2013, she was designated as treasurer for the structure.
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Bavelile Hlongwa was appointed executive deputy chairperson of the board of the National Youth Development Agency in 2017.
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Bavelile Hlongwa started her career as a chemical engineer at Shell Downstream SA.
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Bavelile Hlongwa worked as an engineer from 2011 to 2013, and soon as a production engineer from 2013 to 2015 at Sapref.
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Bavelile Hlongwa was a gas scheduler at the company from 2016 to 2017.
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Bavelile Hlongwa was appointed as the executive deputy chairperson of the board of the National Youth Development Agency in 2017, while she was deputy president of Convocation Executive Committee at the University of KwaZulu-Natal.
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Bavelile Hlongwa was a non-executive board member of the National Metrology Institute of South Africa from 2018 until 2019.
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Bavelile Hlongwa was elected central president of the SRC at University of KwaZulu-Natal in 2009.
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Bavelile Hlongwa was a member of the ANC Youth League and worked as a member of the ANCYL's KwaZulu-Natal branch task team and was a member of various subcommittees from 2013 to 2015.
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Bavelile Hlongwa was a critic of the ANC Women's League.
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In May 2019, Bavelile Hlongwa was elected to the National Assembly of South Africa.
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Bavelile Hlongwa took office as a Member on 22 May 2019.
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Bavelile Hlongwa was sworn in on 30 May 2019 and consequently became one of the youngest members of the cabinet.
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Bavelile Hlongwa died on 13 September 2019, when a truck ploughed into a previous car accident scene she was assisting with.