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Canaan Mdletshe
South African politician (1976 or 1977 – 2024) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Canaan Mdletshe (1976 or 1977 – 5 December 2024) was a South African journalist and politician who was a Member of the National Assembly of South Africa from April until May 2024, representing the National Freedom Party (NFP), of which he served as secretary-general.[1][2]
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Biography
Mdletshe was born in Nongoma.[3] Before entering politics, he worked as a political reporter at The Sowetan and as a news editor at The New Age.[4] He also worked at the TimesLIVE.[5] Mdletshe left those positions in 2013.[6]
He was elected Secretary-General of the NFP in December 2019.[7] His term ended when he resigned on 14 June 2024,[8] although it had been contested by Teddy Thwala since December 2023.[9]
Mdletshe was attacked by a group of people during a layover in Ulundi, a local political violence hotspot at the time, during the 2021 South African municipal elections. He later opened a criminal case regarding the incident.[10]
Mdletshe was not included on any NFP candidate lists for the 2024 general election and left the parliament as a result.[11]
In June 2024, after the NFP joined the Government of Provincial Unity in the aftermath of the 2024 KwaZulu-Natal provincial election, Mdletshe resigned from the party.[8] He had joined the NFP when it was founded in 2011.[12]
In August 2024, Mdletshe joined the MK Party.[13]
Mdletshe was married and had three children.[14] He died in a traffic collision in Mtubatuba on 5 December 2024, at the age of 47.[14][15]
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