Bulelwa Tunyiswa
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Bulelwa Tunyiswa | |
|---|---|
| Member of the Eastern Cape Executive Council for Sport, Recreation, Arts and Culture | |
| In office 9 May 2018 – 7 May 2019 | |
| Premier | Phumulo Masualle |
| Preceded by | Pemmy Majodina |
| Succeeded by | Fezeka Nkomonye-Bayeni |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1962 (age 63–64) |
| Party | African National Congress |
| Other political affiliations | South African Communist Party |
| Alma mater | University of the Western Cape University of Fort Hare |
Bulelwa Tunyiswa is a South African politician who served as the Eastern Cape's Member of the Executive Council (MEC) for Sports, Recreation, Arts and Culture from May 2018 to May 2019. Before that, she was the Deputy Speaker of the Eastern Cape Provincial Legislature from 2010 to 2018. She lost her position on the Executive Council after the 2019 general election, when she failed to gain re-election to the provincial legislature. A member of the African National Congress (ANC), Tunyiswa has also been a member of the Central Committee of the South African Communist Party (SACP) since 2012.
Tunyiswa was born in 1962 in Middledrift in the former Cape Province. She completed an undergraduate degree from the University of the Western Cape and a Master's degree in public administration at the University of Fort Hare. A former teacher, she rose to political prominence through the Congress of South African Trade Unions and the affiliated South African Democratic Teachers' Union, both ANC allies.[1]