Naledi Nokukhanya Chirwa-Mpungose (born 22 July 1993) is a South African politician and former student activist from Gauteng.
[1] Chirwa earned a Bachelor of Arts and a Honours degree in Drama and Film Studies at the University of Pretoria.
[2] She joined the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) in 2015 and became a member of the party's Student Command at the University of Pretoria.
[1] In August 2016, during former president Jacob Zuma's speech at the IEC election centre following the 2016 municipal elections, Chirwa and three other student activists disrupted his speech while holding up signs reading "Khanga", "Remember Khwezi", "I am 1 in 3" and "10 yrs later", in reference to Zuma's rape trial of the mid-2000s.
She was sworn in alongside other student activists, including Peter Keetse, Nompendulo Mkhatshwa and Vuyani Pambo.
[9][10] In January 2022, she trended on Twitter for calling President Cyril Ramaphosa "toothless" and a "weak little boy".
[11] From around 2020, Chirwa was subject to social media attacks from anonymous users who claimed without substantiation that she was a Malawian national and that her family had fraudulently obtained South African citizenship.