1. Nqaba Bhanga was born in KwaZakhele, Port Elizabeth on 28 August 1977.
13 Facts About Nqaba Bhanga
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Nqaba Bhanga was later elected the regional chair of the Congress of South African Students.
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Nqaba Bhanga served as the national secretary general of the South African Student Congress, and as the youth leader of the Congress of the People and its member of Parliament from 2011 to 2014, prior to him defecting to the DA.
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Nqaba Bhanga served as an MP for the DA from 2014 to 2016.
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Nqaba Bhanga was the DA's candidate for Eastern Cape Premier in the 2019 general elections.
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On 4 March 2020, Nqaba Bhanga resigned from the Eastern Cape Provincial Legislature.
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Nqaba Bhanga was elected unopposed as mayor on 4 December 2020.
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On 23 August 2021, DA leader John Steenhuisen announced that Nqaba Bhanga would be the DA's mayoral candidate for Nelson Mandela Bay in the 2021 local government elections.
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Nqaba Bhanga received 60 out of 119 votes, while Bhanga received only 59 votes.
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In January 2023, Nqaba Bhanga announced that he would not be seeking re-election to a third term as the provincial leader of the DA at the party's provincial conference in February.
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Nqaba Bhanga said that his decision was influenced from the trauma he had suffered from after having been involved in a fatal car accident in August 2021 which left two people dead.
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In June 2023, Nqaba Bhanga was suspended from party activities after he accused the party's federal council chairperson Helen Zille of being a racist.
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Nqaba Bhanga resigned from the DA and as a member of the provincial legislature on 1 December 2023, hours after his party membership was terminated.