24 Facts About Tsepo Mhlongo

On 1 December 2023, Tsepo Mhlongo was expelled from the DA and lost his parliamentary membership.

Tsepo Mhlongo has since joined ActionSAfor 8 months and 2024 he joined BABSA as Deputy President.

Tsepo Mhlongo was elected to the student representative council of Matseliso Secondary School when he was in matric.

Tsepo Mhlongo then did an advanced diploma in ministerial training at the Faithways Bible Training Centre in 1997.

Tsepo Mhlongo achieved an advanced certificate in municipal governance from the University of Johannesburg in 2007.

Tsepo Mhlongo did a certificate program in management development on municipal finance at the Wits Business School in 2010.

Tsepo Mhlongo is currently pursuing a postgraduate diploma in governance at the Wits School of Governance.

In 1998, Tsepo Mhlongo joined the Democratic Party structures in Soweto.

Tsepo Mhlongo joined the Democratic Alliance, when it was formed in 2000.

Tsepo Mhlongo was then appointed a shadow councillor candidate for the Greater Johannesburg region, representing Orlando East.

Tsepo Mhlongo has been a member of the DA's Johannesburg regional executive committee, the Gauteng provincial executive committee, and the Federal Council.

Tsepo Mhlongo became a parliamentary candidate for the party in the 8 May 2014 general elections.

Tsepo Mhlongo appeared eighteenth on the DA's Gauteng list, thus qualifying for a seat in Parliament as the DA retained its status as official opposition.

Tsepo Mhlongo was sworn in on 21 May On 5 June 2014, he was appointed as Shadow Deputy Minister of Rural Development and Land Reform by Mmusi Maimane, the DA parliamentary leader.

On 24 November 2016, Tsepo Mhlongo was selected to be the Shadow Minister of Sport and Recreation, replacing Solly Malatsi.

At the election, it appeared that Tsepo Mhlongo had lost his seat in the National Assembly.

However, fellow DA MP Gwen Ngwenya declined her seat and the DA chose Tsepo Mhlongo to fill it.

Tsepo Mhlongo was sworn in along with all the other Members of Parliament on 22 May 2019.

Steenhuisen started his leadership campaign in February 2020 with Tsepo Mhlongo publicly endorsing his leadership campaign early on.

Tsepo Mhlongo dismissed it as a "desperate attempt to silence" him.

On 1 December 2023, Tsepo Mhlongo was expelled from the DA after he was found guilty of plotting to defraud the party's electoral systems ahead of the 2024 national and provincial elections.

Tsepo Mhlongo lost his membership of the National Assembly as a result.

Tsepo Mhlongo then accused DA leader Steenhuisen and Manny de Freitas of using party money to fund Steenhuisen's leadership campaigns.

Tsepo Mhlongo denied that he was buying alcohol and said that he was buying groceries at Pick n Pay.