Lindiwe Mazibuko

Parliamentary Leader of the Democratic Alliance

Lindiwe was born in Swaziland and raised in Durban. She went to school at St Mary's DSG in Kloof, where she matriculated in 1997. From there she went on to the University of KwaZulu-Natal to pursue a Bachelor of Music degree then to the University of Cape Town,  where she obtained a BA (French, Classics, Media & Writing) in 2006 and a BA Honours (Political Communication) degree in 2007.
 
Lindiwe first got involved with the DA when she chose Helen Zille as the subject for her honours dissertation. In order to complete her dissertation, she spent some time doing research both into her tenure as Mayor of Cape Town and DA Leader, and into the party's policies and programmes of action which she discovered were very much in sync with her own ideologies and political vision for this country.
 
After completing her post-graduate degree she was employed to work as part of the DA’s Parliamentary operation. She saw this as an opportunity to put her words and thoughts into action by "rolling up my sleeves" as she puts it. She found her involvement in the political process exhilarating and after a year as a researcher, was appointed the party's national media officer during the 2009 National Elections.
 
Lindiwe decided to stand for public office in 2008 and was elected to Parliament in 2009, where she became DA’s National Spokesperson and Shadow Deputy Minister for Communications. In 2010 she became the  Shadow Minister for Rural Development and Land Reform and in October 2011 was elected by the DA’s Parliamentary caucus as Parliamentary Leader and Leader of the Opposition in the National Assembly.
 
Her constituency is North Durban in KwaZulu-Natal, and says she is utterly committed to politics and is grateful to have the privilege of being able to live her passion.

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