Luyolo Mphithi was elected as Vice President of the African Liberal Youth for democracy in Dakar, Senegal in 2022.

[1] Additionally, Mphithi has a certificate in political formations and structures from the International Academy of Leadership (IAF) in Gummersbach, Germany.

[1] He was also employed as a consultant at various institutions, such as the Executive Research Associates, the Hanns Seidel Foundation, the University of the Witwatersrand, and the Department of International Relations and Cooperation.

[5] Maimane resigned as DA leader in October 2019 and John Steenhuisen was voted in as his interim successor in November.

Mphithi re-shared the photo before establishing the true facts, and criticized the teacher Elana Barkhuizen for being a racist .

Mphithi was accused of having "sowed racial division" in Schweizer-Reneke, as a result of re-sharing the photo and his comments on the teacher.

[13] Solidarity CEO Dirk Hermann wrote a letter to Maimane, in which he singled out and scapegoated Mphithi, and said he "sowed racial division" and that he should apologise to Barkhuizen and the children, whose identities he exposed.

This response from the DA resulted in a claim that the party lost large amounts of Afrikaner votes at the May election due to Mphithi's actions.

[16] The report exonerated Mphithi and found that the loss of Afrikaner votes was also due to poor communication and the party's campaign strategy, and not only Mphith's tweet.

[17][18][19] On 4 April 2022, Mphithi resigned as the Federal Leader of the Democratic Alliance Youth to focus on serving the DA's Soweto constituency.