Mlindi Advent Nhanha was born on 3 July 1969 and is a South African politician and businessman from the Eastern Cape who has served as a permanent delegate to the National Council of Provinces since 2019.
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Mlindi Nhanha served as a COPE Member of Parliament during the Fourth Parliament.
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Mlindi Nhanha was involved in anti-apartheid activities and held leadership positions in the Alice Student Congress, the Border Student Congress, the South African Youth Congress, the African National Congress as well as the party's youth wing, the African National Congress Youth League.
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Mlindi Nhanha left the ANC following the party's 2007 Polokwane Conference where Jacob Zuma was elected party president, saying the ANC had lost its way.
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Mlindi Nhanha subsequently joined the Congress of the People, a breakaway party formed by disgruntled anti-Zuma ANC members.
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Mlindi Nhanha stood as one of the party's parliamentary candidates in the 2009 general elections and was elected to the National Assembly, the lower house of parliament.
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Mlindi Nhanha joined the Democratic Alliance in the run-up to the 2016 local government elections and was unveiled as a DA councillor candidate for the Makana Local Municipality during a press briefing on 24 May 2016.
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Mlindi Nhanha was elected to the Makana Municipal Council as a DA representative in the local elections and subsequently elected as DA caucus leader.
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Mlindi Nhanha went to criticise the ANC government for the decline of various state-owned enterprises before lambasting the government for enhancing the "unfounded" stereotypes about black people not being able to govern a country.
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On 6 April 2021, Mlindi Nhanha appeared in the Alice Magistrate's Court on attempted murder charges after he was arrested for having shot at his brother-in-law Mxolisi Daniel during an altercation at Daniel's homestead in the Dyamala Location outside Alice in the Eastern Cape on 4 April.
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Daniel later withdrew the charges, saying that he and Mlindi Nhanha "resolved their differences".
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Mlindi Nhanha was released on R500 bail as the case was postponed to 7 June 2021.