Firoz Cachalia was born on 22 July 1958 and is a South African lawyer and politician who was a Member of the Gauteng Executive Council from 2004 to 2010.
10 Facts About Firoz Cachalia
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Firoz Cachalia's brother is Azhar Cachalia, an activist and judge.
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Firoz Cachalia holds a Bachelor of Arts and an LLB, and in 1996 he received an LLM from the University of Michigan.
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Firoz Cachalia first joined the Gauteng Provincial Legislature in 1994 and he ultimately became Speaker of the provincial legislature from 1999 to 2004.
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On 29 April 2004, following the 2004 general election, Firoz Cachalia was appointed for the first time to the Gauteng Executive Council; Mbhazima Shilowa, then entering his second term as Premier of Gauteng, appointed him Member of the Executive Council for Community Safety.
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Firoz Cachalia retained that portfolio until the 2009 general election, throughout Shilowa's second term and the brief tenure of Shilowa's successor, Paul Mashatile.
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From May 2009, under newly elected Premier Nomvula Mokonyane, Firoz Cachalia was MEC for Economic Development, a newly created portfolio.
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Firoz Cachalia subsequently became a professor at the Wits University School of Law.
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In September 2022, Firoz Cachalia began a three-year term as chairperson of the National Anti-Corruption Advisory Council, a body newly created by Zuma's successor, President Cyril Ramaphosa, to prevent and eradicate corruption and state capture, including by guiding the government's response to the findings of the Zondo Commission.
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Firoz Cachalia served until December 2022 as a member of the National Executive Committee of his political party, the ANC; he was co-opted onto the body in October 2019.