Jeanette Vilakazi is a South African politician who represented the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) in Parliament.
In that capacity, she was a strong supporter of including provisions to prohibit discrimination on the basis of age,[2] but was sceptical about the import of heterosexism.
In November 1999, IOL reported that committee chair Mohseen Moosa had intervened to prevent Vilakazi from questioning a representative of the National Coalition for Gay and Lesbian Equality about "what gay is"; saying that she could not "comprehend fully" the concept, she reportedly asked the representative to "define it, have pictures even, you know, how you do sex and all those things".
[3][4] In later years, Vilakazi was an outspoken opponent of the Civil Union Act, which she argued was "at odds with the wishes of a majority of South Africans"[5] and would "lead to the disintegration of family life and will encourage abnormal sexual behaviour".
[6] While in the NCOP, Vilakazi was also a member of Parliament's Joint Rules Committee and made national headlines in 2003 for defending MPs who were filmed falling asleep during parliamentary debates.