Veronica Mente | |
Honorific-Suffix: | MP |
Office: | Chairperson of the Economic Freedom Fighters |
President: | Julius Malema |
Term Start: | 14 December 2019 |
Predecessor: | Dali Mpofu |
Office1: | Member of the National Assembly of South Africa |
Term Start1: | 21 May 2014 |
Constituency1: | Eastern Cape |
Birthname: | Ntombovuyo Veronica Mente |
Birth Place: | Khayelitsha, Cape Town, Cape Province, South Africa |
Nationality: | South African |
Party: | Economic Freedom Fighters |
Occupation: | Member of Parliament |
Profession: | Politician |
Ntombovuyo Veronica Mente is a South African politician serving as the Chairperson of the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) since her election in December 2019. She is also a Member of the National Assembly of South Africa, having taken office in May 2014.
Mente is from the Khayelitsha township in Cape Town. She began her career by working as a security member for the previous mayor of Cape Town. She was a "barefoot lawyer" in Khayelitsha who assisted workers. Mente was then a volunteer for the Labour Community Advice Media and Education Centre (LAMEC) in Khayelitsha.[1]
Mente became a member of the EFF shortly after its founding. She was elected to Parliament in 2014.
In May 2019, she was re-elected for a second term as an MP. As of June 2019, she is a member of the Standing Committee on Public Accounts and an Alternate Member of the Standing Committee on the Auditor General. She became a member of the Disciplinary Committee in September 2019.
Mente was elected EFF national chairperson at the party's second elective conference in December 2019, succeeding advocate Dali Mpofu.[2]