Mpowele Swathe
{{Short description|South African politician}}
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| office = Shadow Minister of Rural Development and Land Reform
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| term_start = 2009
| term_end = 2014
| leader = Helen Zille
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Mpowele Swathe is a South African politician, a former Member of Parliament with the Democratic Alliance, and the former Shadow Minister of Rural Development and Land Reform.
Early life
Swathe was born in Limpopo, became part of Black Consciousness Movement in the late 1980s, and joined the United Democratic Front in 1990 and the African National Congress. He later qualified as a teacher in 1996.{{Cite web |title=Mpowele Mexan Swathe |url=http://www.pa.org.za/person/mpowele-mexan-swathe/ |access-date=2023-04-20 |website=People's Assembly |language=en}}
Parliamentary career
Swathe retired from politics in 1996 before joining the Democratic Party in 2000, getting elected to parliament in the 2004 South African general election. In March 2014 it became known that Swathe had joined the United Christian Democratic Party (UCDP), and his name appeared on both parties' lists for the 2014 general election.{{Cite web |url=http://www.sabc.co.za/news/a/10a11580436e7a35b258b7a64eba5fdc/Candidates-appear-on-more-than-one-party-list |title=Archived copy |access-date=2014-03-30 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140330224318/http://www.sabc.co.za/news/a/10a11580436e7a35b258b7a64eba5fdc/Candidates-appear-on-more-than-one-party-list |archive-date=2014-03-30 |url-status=dead }} UCDP did not win any seats.
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Category:Democratic Alliance (South Africa) politicians
Category:Members of the National Assembly of South Africa 2004–2009
Category:Members of the National Assembly of South Africa 2009–2014