Mazibuko returned to the provincial legislature in 2009 and was appointed Member of the Executive Council (MEC) for Infrastructure Development.

Faith Nonhlanhla Mazibuko was born on 2 April 1965 in the Charteston township in Nigel in South Africa's former Transvaal Province.

[1] Mazibuko completed an Executive Strategic Leadership Course at the Graduate School of Public Management of the University of the Witwatersrand.

She also studied a short course on Committees in Defence of the Revolution at the National CDR Cadres School in Havana, Cuba.

Mazibuko was also a member of the youth league's provincial executive committee and served as the PEC's Secretary for Sports, Arts and Culture.

During her tenure as an MPL, she was an ANC whip and served on the legislature's portfolio and select committees on health, education, arts and culture.

She was appointed Member of the Executive Council (MEC) for Infrastructure Development by newly elected premier Nomvula Mokonyane.

[7] In October 2015, Makhura announced that Mazibuko would swop positions with MEC for Sports, Heritage, Arts and Culture, Molebatsi Bopape.

[8] Maizbuko was implicated in controversy when a recording[9] of her trying to force her staff to disregard procurement processes so as to fast track the delivery of combicourts in the run-up to the 2019 general elections was leaked to the media.