Born on 22 April 1940,[1] Mzizi represented the IFP as a local councillor in Thokoza, a black township in the former Transvaal, during apartheid.
[2] During later commission hearings, members of a different self-defence unit – this one aligned to the IFP – implicated Mzizi in the 1991 assassination of ANC supporter Sam Ntuli.
[1] In March 2003, Mzizi resigned from the National Assembly in order to fill an IFP seat in the KwaZulu-Natal Provincial Legislature.
[8][9] He is married to Gertrude Mzizi, who was also active in the IFP during apartheid and who later served as a member of the Gauteng Provincial Legislature.
He passed away peacefully in his old age surrounded by his wife children and grandchildren.