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Sibusiso Mdabe

member of the National Assembly of South Africa

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 12, 2026
Entity authorityQ64399350 ↗
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Sibusiso Welcome Mdabe is a South African politician who was elected to the National Assembly of South Africa in the 2019 national election as a member of the African National Congress. He had previously served as the mayor of the iLembe District Municipality in KwaZulu-Natal and as the provincial chairperson of the South African Local Government Association.

In parliament, he served on the Portfolio Committee on Employment and Labour.

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“Sibusiso Mdabe” enters the record as member of the National Assembly of South Africa. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Sibusiso, Mdabe and member can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from “Sibusiso Mdabe” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.