Wilson Ngcobo

Ndawoyakhe Wilson Ngcobo is a South African politician who served in the KwaZulu-Natal Provincial Legislature from 1999 to 2006 and from 2009 to 2014. In the interim, he served briefly in the National Assembly from 2006 to 2009. He was a member of the Democratic Party (DP), later the Democratic Alliance (DA), until September 2005, when he crossed the floor to join the African National Congress (ANC). In 2015, he left the ANC to establish the National Religious Freedom Party, a KwaZulu-Natal-based party of which Ngcobo is president.

Wilson Ngcobo
Member of the National Assembly
Assembly Member
for KwaZulu-Natal
In office
7 August 2006 – May 2009
Personal details
CitizenshipSouth Africa
Political partyNational Religious Freedom Party
Other political
affiliations

Political career

In the 1999 general election, Ngcobo was elected to the KwaZulu-Natal Provincial Legislature, ranked fifth on the DP's provincial party list.[1] He was re-elected to his seat in 2004 under the DP's successor party, the DA. However, during the 2005 floor-crossing window, he announced that he had left the DA to join the ANC.[2] He said that he was attracted by the ANC's progressivism, saying that, "Some of the white people in the party think the DA is there to serve white people's interests only".[2]

On 7 August 2006, the ANC sent him to the National Assembly, where he filled a casual vacancy in the ANC caucus.[3] In the 2009 general election, he was returned to the KwaZulu-Natal Provincial Legislature,[4] where he served until the next general election in 2014.[5] In 2015, he left the ANC to form the NRFP.[6] The party contested the 2019 provincial election in KwaZulu-Natal, with Ngcobo ranked first on the party list, but it did not win any seats.[5]

References
  1. "General Notice: Notice 1319 of 1999 – Electoral Commission: Representatives Elected to the Various Legislatures" (PDF). Government Gazette of South Africa. Vol. 408, no. 20203. Pretoria, South Africa: Government of South Africa. 11 June 1999. Retrieved 26 March 2021.
  2. "Two KZN floor-crossers ditch the DA". IOL. 8 September 2005. Retrieved 9 April 2023.
  3. "National Assembly Members". Parliamentary Monitoring Group. 15 January 2009. Archived from the original on 14 May 2009. Retrieved 8 April 2023.
  4. "KwaZulu-Natal MPLs elected April 22". Politicsweb. 30 April 2009. Retrieved 9 April 2023.
  5. "Ndawoyakhe Wilson Ngcobo". People's Assembly. Retrieved 9 April 2023.
  6. "Elections 2019: National Religious Freedom Party". SABC News. 3 May 2019. Retrieved 9 April 2023.
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