13 Facts About Lungi Gcabashe

Lungi Gcabashe has been the Deputy President of the ANC Women's League since July 2023.

Lungi Gcabashe represented the ANC in the National Assembly between 2014 and 2019, and she chaired the Portfolio Committee on Public Enterprises from 2017 to 2019 during its inquiry into maladministration at Eskom.

Thereafter Mnganga-Lungi Gcabashe took a hiatus from legislative politics, serving instead as chief of staff in the office of Pemmy Majodina, the Chief Whip of the Majority Party.

Lungi Gcabashe returned to the National Assembly in the May 2024 general election and was elected as chairperson of the Portfolio Committee on Tourism.

Lungi Gcabashe is currently a member of the ANC's National Executive Committee, having been elected to two non-consecutive five-year terms on the committee in 2012 and 2022.

Lungi Gcabashe subsequently worked for two years in local government administration in Pinetown.

In March 2012, Mnganga-Lungi Gcabashe stood for a second term as ANCWL Provincial Chairperson but lost in a tense contest with Celiwe Madlopha.

Lungi Gcabashe served a single term in Parliament, departing after the next general election in 2019.

Lungi Gcabashe succeeded Dipuo Letsatsi-Duba, who had left the committee to become Deputy Minister of Public Service and Administration, and she entered the position amid a high-profile parliamentary inquiry into alleged maladministration at Eskom.

Mnganga-Lungi Gcabashe was not re-elected to the ANC National Executive Committee in 2017, but she retained the parliamentary chairmanship until 2019, when she did not seek re-election to Parliament.

Lungi Gcabashe was returned to a second five-year term on the ANC's National Executive Committee at the party's 55th National Conference in December 2022; by popularity, she was ranked 64th of the 80 candidates elected, receiving 1,091 votes across the 4,029 ballots cast in total.

Mnganga-Lungi Gcabashe received 325 nominations from league branches for the position of ANCWL Deputy President, the second highest amount of branch nominations behind the late Tina Joemat-Pettersson, who received 1,061 nominations.

Mnganga-Lungi Gcabashe was formerly married to Sipho Lungi Gcabashe, a businessman and ANC politician.