27 Facts About Luyolo Mphithi

Luyolo Mphithi was born on 1 September 1992 and is a South African politician who has been a Member of the National Assembly of South Africa since 2019.

Luyolo Mphithi was elected as Vice President of the African Liberal Youth for democracy in Dakar, Senegal in 2022.

Luyolo Mphithi serves as a Bureau Regional member of the International Federation of Liberal Youth.

Luyolo Mphithi is currently pursuing his master's degree in Public Administration at the same university.

Additionally, Luyolo Mphithi has a certificate in political formations and structures from the International Academy of Leadership in Gummersbach, Germany.

Luyolo Mphithi holds a certificate in research Methodology from Bowdoin College and a certificate in public management from Syracuse University in the United States.

Luyolo Mphithi was employed by the Mpumalanga Provincial Legislature as a research and communication officer, responsible for researching the fields of cooperative governance and traditional affairs, human settlements, public works, roads and transport, as well as public safety, security and liaison.

Luyolo Mphithi served as the Director of Political Administration at the City of Johannesburg.

Luyolo Mphithi served as a Democratic Alliance councillor in the City of Johannesburg for the community of Meadowlands in Soweto.

Luyolo Mphithi served as the director and head of department of political administration for the municipality.

Luyolo Mphithi is a DA's Young Leaders Programme graduate and has held multiple roles in the DA.

Luyolo Mphithi serves as a member of the party's Federal Council for the Johannesburg region.

Luyolo Mphithi represented the organisation at the African Liberal Network's 2017 conference in Nairobi, Kenya.

At the DA's conference in April 2018, Luyolo Mphithi was elected federal leader of the DA Youth, succeeding Yusuf Cassim.

Luyolo Mphithi stood as a DA parliamentary candidate on the national list in the 2019 national elections, and was elected to the National Assembly and sworn in on 22 May 2019.

Luyolo Mphithi was against the decision and later supported KwaZulu-Natal MPL Mbali Ntuli's bid for DA leader.

Luyolo Mphithi announced his shadow cabinet in December 2020 and kept Mphithi as Shadow Minister of Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities in the Presidency.

In January 2019, months before the May 2019 general election, Luyolo Mphithi shared on Twitter a single photo of the Grade R classroom of the Schweizer-Reneke primary school following reports that the school had segregated children of different races.

Luyolo Mphithi re-shared the photo before establishing the true facts, and criticized the teacher Elana Barkhuizen for being a racist.

Luyolo Mphithi was accused of having "sowed racial division" in Schweizer-Reneke, as a result of re-sharing the photo and his comments on the teacher.

Solidarity CEO Dirk Hermann wrote a letter to Maimane, in which he singled out and scapegoated Luyolo Mphithi, and said he "sowed racial division" and that he should apologise to Barkhuizen and the children, whose identities he exposed.

Luyolo Mphithi refused to apologise and Maimane did not see reason to sanction him as he was not responsible for the narrative being spread both on social media and the media that the school racially segregated students.

The report exonerated Luyolo Mphithi and found that the loss of Afrikaner votes was due to poor communication and the party's campaign strategy, and not only Mphith's tweet.

The party's Federal Executive unanimously adopted the report exonerating Luyolo Mphithi which named those responsible for the loss of the Afrikaner votes as the party's former CEO, Paul Boughey, the former Campaign Director, Jonathan Moakes, and Executive Director of Communications, Siviwe Gwarube, elected an MP after the 2019 election and appointed as the National Spokesperson of the party by the Leader of the DA, John Steenhuisen in November 2020.

On 4 April 2022, Luyolo Mphithi resigned as the Federal Leader of the Democratic Alliance Youth to focus on serving the DA's Soweto constituency.

Luyolo Mphithi was appointed Shadow Minister of Human Settlements on 21 April 2023.

Luyolo Mphithi was re-elected to the National Assembly at the 2024 general election.