16 Facts About Nonkqubela Pieters

Nonkqubela Ntomboxolo Pieters was born on 12 April 1965 and is a South African politician and educator who has been the Eastern Cape's Member of the Executive Council for Economic Development, Environmental Affairs and Tourism since 2024 and a member of the Eastern Cape Provincial Legislature since 2019, representing the African National Congress.

Nonkqubela Pieters previously served as the MEC for Human Settlements from 2019 to 2021 and then as the MEC for Rural Development and Agrarian Reform from 2021 until 2024.

Nonkqubela Pieters earned a certificate in Maths 1 at the University of Port Elizabeth in 1999.

Nonkqubela Pieters studied at Rhodes University between 1998 and 2001 and graduated with a further diploma in education in 1999 and a Honours degree in education in 2001.

In 2015 Nonkqubela Pieters received a Master of Public Administration from the University of Fort Hare.

Nonkqubela Pieters worked as an educator at the Johnson Nqonqoza Senior Secondary School from 1991 and 2006 and was the principal of the Bosberg Adult Centre from 1997 to 1999.

In 1984 Nonkqubela Pieters became a Congress of South African Students and joined the Somerset East Youth Congress the following year.

Nonkqubela Pieters served as an executive member of the Somerset East Woman Organization.

Nonkqubela Pieters was a member of the South African National Students Congress and was responsible for political classes at her residence at the Cape College of Education between 1988 and 1990.

Nonkqubela Pieters was the branch secretary of the organisation's Somerset East branch from 1991 to 1994, gender desk convenor of the SADTU branch from 1994 to 2003, and the chairperson of the SADTU Somerset East branch and Western Region from 1999 to 2003.

Nonkqubela Pieters was the branch secretary of the South African Communist Party Somerset East Branch from 1991 to 1993 and she was the executive member of the SACP's former Eastern Cape Region from 1993 to 1995.

Nonkqubela Pieters was the portfolio councillor for that portfolio until 2016.

Nonkqubela Pieters had served in the role of speaker for nearly twelve years before she resigned to take up the position of Parliamentary Liaison Officer at the Department of Human Settlements in December 2018.

Nonkqubela Pieters was elected treasurer of the African National Congress Women's League in the Eastern Cape during the league's conference held in July 2023.

Nonkqubela Pieters was elected as a member of the Eastern Cape Provincial Legislature in 2019.

Nonkqubela Pieters was appointed to the role of Member of the Executive Council for Human Settlements by the newly elected premier, Oscar Mabuyane.