Kim Medupe
{{Short description|South African politician}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2023}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| office = Member of the North West Provincial Legislature
| party = African National Congress
| citizenship = South Africa
| termstart = 22 May 2019
| termend = 8 November 2022
| birth_date = {{birth based on age as of date|39|2015|01|07}}
}}
Onica Dipuo "Kim" Medupe (born 1975 or 1976){{Cite web |date=7 January 2015 |title=Mayor in court for assault |url=https://www.sowetanlive.co.za/news/2015-01-07-mayor-in-court-for-assault/ |access-date=2023-01-25 |website=Sowetan |language=en-ZA}} is a South African politician who represented the African National Congress (ANC) in the North West Provincial Legislature between May 2019 and November 2022. She was formerly the Mayor of the North West's Kgetlengrivier Local Municipality.
Mayor of Kgetlengrivier
While she was mayor, in January 2015, Medupe appeared in Koster Magistrate's Court on an assault charge. The Sowetan reported that she and another woman were alleged to have assaulted a woman whom they accused of having an affair with Medupe's husband.
Medupe was re-elected{{Cite web |last=Thakali |first=Thabiso |date=27 July 2016 |title='Mayor lives in lap of luxury while residents suffer' |url=https://www.iol.co.za/news/politics/mayor-lives-in-lap-of-luxury-while-residents-suffer-2049901 |access-date=2023-01-25 |website=IOL |language=en}} as Kgetlengrivier Mayor in the 2016 local government elections. By mid-2018, she had been in office for about eight years.{{Cite news |date=2018-07-12 |title=Koster – the South African town where residents took back control |language=en-GB |work=BBC News |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-44633331 |access-date=2023-01-25}} In May of that year, her house and a four-star guesthouse she owned were set alight during violent service delivery protests in Kgetlengrivier.{{Cite web |date=24 May 2018 |title=Mayor flees after Koster protesters torch her properties |url=https://www.enca.com/south-africa/service-delivery-protest-causes-kgetlengriver-mayor-to-flee |access-date=2023-01-25 |website=eNCA |language=en}} Medupe and other councillors fled the municipality,{{Cite web |date=10 June 2018 |title=Residents take charge of town killed by graft |url=https://www.timeslive.co.za/sunday-times/news/2018-06-09-residents-take-charge-of-town-killed-by-graft/ |access-date=2023-01-25 |website=Sunday Times |language=en-ZA}} which was later placed under administration.{{Cite web |date=2018-07-12 |title=Call for new political leadership in Kgetlengrivier Municipality |url=https://www.sabcnews.com/sabcnews/call-for-new-political-leadership-in-kgetlengrivier-municipality/ |access-date=2023-01-25 |website=SABC News |language=en-US}} The BBC reported that the immediate trigger for the protests had been residents' perception that Medupe had decided to tar the road leading to her guesthouse instead of the road leading to the local clinic. Medupe claimed that the protests were politically motivated.
Provincial legislature
Medupe was elected to the North West Provincial Legislature in the 2019 general election, ranked eighth on the ANC's provincial party list.{{Cite web |title=Onica Dipuo Medupe |url=http://www.pa.org.za/person/onica-dipuo-medupe/ |access-date=2023-01-25 |website=People's Assembly |language=en}} She resigned in November 2022 and her seat was filled by Nono Maloyi, the ANC's newly elected Provincial Chairperson.{{Cite web |date=2022-11-09 |title=ANC's Nono Maloyi sworn in as new member of the North West legislature |url=https://www.sabcnews.com/sabcnews/ancs-nono-baloyi-sworn-in-new-member-of-the-north-west-legislature/ |access-date=2023-01-25 |website=SABC News |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |date=2022-11-09 |title=ANC's Nono Maloyi sworn in as MPL amid looming North West Cabinet reshuffle |url=https://www.citizen.co.za/news/south-africa/politics/anc-nono-maloyi-sworn-in-mpl-cabinet-reshuffle-november-2022/ |access-date=2023-01-25 |website=The Citizen |language=en}}
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External links
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- {{People's Assembly (South Africa)|onica-dipuo-medupe|Onica Dipuo Medupe}}
{{Members of the North West Provincial Legislature}}
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Category:African National Congress politicians