Alphina Ndlovana
Alphina Anna "Gogo" Ndlovana is a South African politician who has represented the African National Congress in the Gauteng Provincial Legislature since 2019. A teacher by training, she was formerly a local councilor in the City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality and, before that, a public servant in the Mpumalanga Department of Education.
Early life and career
Ndlovana was born on 25 August 1957 in Mamelodi. She became politically active through the anti-apartheid movement while a student at Vlakfontein High School. While teaching at Rethabile High School in Mamelodi, she became co-founder of Mamelodi Teachers Union. In addition to her teaching certificate, she has a Bachelor's degree from the University of Pretoria and a Master's degree in educational management from the University of Johannesburg.After the end of apartheid in 1994, she was recruited to the Mpumalanga Department of Education, where she rose to a senior position as an education specialist. Mpumalanga Premier David Mabuza suspended her from the department in mid-1999 after an internal inquiry found that she was partly responsible for fraudulently inflating the province's matric results by 20%.