Mr Bangokwakhe Madesius Zuma

Member of the KwaZulu-Natal Provincial Legislature

About Bangokwakhe Madesius Zuma

Bangokwakhe Madesius "Super" Zuma served as KwaZulu-Natal's Member of the Executive Council (MEC) for Agriculture and Rural Development.

Zuma served as Provincial Secretary of the ANC's KwaZulu-Natal branch, an office he held between 2015 and 2018. He is also a former Provincial Secretary of the National Education, Health and Allied Workers' Union.

Bangokwakhe Madesius Zuma was born in 1962 in Impendle.

Zuma chaired a local branch of the African National Congress (ANC) in Natal from 1992 to 1998, and, after the end of apartheid, he served a stint as an ANC local councillor, beginning with the position of Deputy Mayor of the interim Hilton council from 1995. However, he rose to prominence as a trade unionist: he had joined the National Education, Health and Allied Workers Union (NEHAWU) as a shop steward while working at the University of Zululand. In 2001, he was elected Provincial Secretary of NEHAWU's KwaZulu-Natal branch; he succeeded Bheki Mtolo and remained in the office for about eight years. Simultaneously, he rose through the ranks of the ANC's Moses Mabhida regional branch in Umgungundlovu District, he was elected Deputy Regional Secretary of the branch in 2006 and then served as Regional Secretary from 2008 to 2014.

In the 2014 general election, Zuma was elected to an ANC seat in the KwaZulu-Natal Provincial Legislature, ranked 37th on the ANC's provincial party list. In November 2014, he succeeded Alpha Shelembe, his colleague in the provincial legislature, as Regional Chairperson of the Moses Mabhida ANC; he stood unopposed after Shelembe withdrew from the race.

On 8 November 2015, at a party elective conference in Pietermaritzburg, Zuma was elected Provincial Secretary of the ANC's branch in KwaZulu-Natal. He served under Provincial Chairperson Sihle Zikalala, with Mluleki Ndobe as his deputy. He resigned from the provincial legislature to take up the full-time party position.

On 26 September 2018, Zuma was sworn back into the legislature and served as Deputy Chief Whip of the Majority Party in the legislature.

In the 2019 general election, he was re-elected to a full term in the provincial legislature, ranked 24th on the ANC's party list. He was named Chief Whip when the legislature was constituted after the election. In July 2022, he was elected to a four-year term as an ordinary member of the KwaZulu-Natal ANC's Provincial Executive Committee. On 7 February 2023, Premier Nomusa Dube-Ncube appointed him to the KwaZulu-Natal Executive Council as Member of the Executive Council (MEC) for Agriculture and Rural Development