Vusumuzi Cyril Xaba (born 14 February 1967) is a South African politician from KwaZulu-Natal.
He joined the National Assembly in the May 2019 general election and chaired the Portfolio Committee on Defence and Military Veterans during the Sixth Parliament.
[4] After matriculating in 1986, he enrolled in a Bachelor of Arts at the University of Durban-Westville, majoring in law,[3] but he dropped out for political reasons.
[4] Instead, he transferred to the University of Natal, where he completed a community service training certificate in 1988 and a Baccalaureus Procurationis in 1992.
[4] During the same period, he rose in the ranks of the provincial ANC; he was regional secretary of the party's branch in Durban West from 1995 to 2001, deputy chairperson of its regional branch in eThekwini from 2002 to 2007, and an elected member of the party's Provincial Executive Committee from 2004 to 2012.
[8] Xaba served the rest of the legislative term as an ordinary Member of the Provincial Legislature.
[9] In June 2017 he attended a CR17 campaign event in Dambuza, fuelling rumors that he had joined Senzo Mchunu in supporting Cyril Ramaphosa's bid to be elected as ANC president.
[11] In the aftermath of the election, the ANC announced that it would nominate him to chair the National Assembly's Portfolio Committee on Defence and Military Veterans.
[13][14] On 25 July 2019, he was additionally elected as co-chairperson of Parliament's Joint Standing Committee on Defence, serving alongside Elleck Nchabeleng of the National Council of Provinces.
[15] He held both positions during two major domestic deployments of the South African National Defence Force, first during the COVID-19 pandemic of 2020 and then during the civil unrest of 2021.
[18][19] And in 2023 he was elected as chairperson of the ad hoc committee that selected Kholeka Gcaleka to succeed Busisiwe Mkhwebane as Public Protector.