Nthabiseng Khunou

Nthabiseng Khunou (born 21 December 1969) is a South African politician from the Free State. She represented the African National Congress (ANC) in the National Assembly from 2003 to 2019 and formerly served in the Free State Provincial Legislature. Quotes My political awareness started in 1988 as a student activist at the University of Limpopo (Turfloop) as that campus was a hive of political activity. From 1992 having moved to study at the University of Durban (Westville), I became a student leader. Post university I joined the ANC Women’s League (ANCWL) at a very young age in early 1996. In 1999 the ANC deployed me to the Free State Provincial Legislature where I was a member of the finance portfolio and chaired the multi-party women’s caucus committee as well. From there on I was deployed as a Member of the Mayoral Committee (MMC) for about a year during my councillorship. In 2003 I was then deployed to the National Council of Provinces (NCOP) in the social cluster committees until 2004. In 2004 I was deployed to the National Assembly (NA) as a whip for the ANC in the Trade and Industry portfolio committee. In the period from 2004-2009 I also served in the Transport, Social Development, Arts and Culture committees and was Chairperson of the Parliamentary Interfaith Council. The only challenge I have observed is that we develop good policies without implementing them and developing afresh new policy papers without having tested previous policy; and this dates back to the Third Parliament. Regarding the Fifth Parliament specifically, people have come to follow the law making process more attentively however; there is an element where our citizens think we play here because of the shenanigans that occur at the Chamber. I would prefer that more television and radio coverage would focus on committee work. External links Category:Living people Category:Women politicians in South Africa Category:African National Congress politicians Category:1969 births Category:Women born in the 1960s