10 Things you don’t know about Lindiwe Mazibuko

1.  Full name Lindiwe Mazibuko

2.  Lindwe Mazibuko is a Parliamentary Leader for the opposition Democratic Alliance

3.  Lindiwe Mazibuko was born 9 April 1980

4.  A graduate of the University of Cape Town, Mazibuko wrote a paper on the Democratic Alliance after then party leader Tony Leon stepped down in 2006. Upon graduating Mazibuko took up a post in the DA as the party’s media liaison officer in Parliament

5.  Lindiwe Mazibuko is the country’s fourth youngest parliamentarian, after the African National Congress’s Mduduzi Manana, Congress of the People’s Luzelle Adams, and her DA colleague Masizole Mnqasela

6.  Lindiwe Mazibuko has been labelled a “rising star in Parliament” and a possible future DA leader

7.  Lindiwe Mazibuko became a parliamentary candidate for the party in the 2009 general elections

8.  Lindiwe Mazibuko appeared third on the DA’s KwaZulu-Natal list thus qualifying for a seat in Parliament as the DA retained its status as official opposition

9.  Lindiwe Mazibuko was subsequently appointed as the DA’s Shadow Deputy Minister of Communications, and also succeeded Donald Lee as the party’s National Spokesperson

10.  Lindiwe Mazibuko was elected the new DA parliamentary leader on 27 October 2011