Nazley Sharif

Nazley Khan Sharif MPL (born 18 May 1990) is a South African politician who has been a Member of the Gauteng Provincial Legislature since 2024.

She previously served in the National Assembly of South Africa and in the DA's Shadow Cabinet as the Shadow Minister of Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities from April 2023 until May 2024, having previously served as Deputy Minister between June 2019 and April 2023.

[1] While in her first year at the University of the Witwatersrand, she joined the Democratic Alliance Students' Organisation (DASO) on campus.

She has been the deputy chairperson for Recruitment and Campaigns of DASO, the chair of the DA Youth in the party's Johannesburg South constituency, the chair of the DA Gauteng South Regional Youth Organisation, and the chairperson of the DASO branch at Wits University.

[7] Sharif was promoted to Shadow Minister of Women, Youth and Disabilities in the Presidency by Steenhuisen on 21 April 2023.

Sharif speaking to U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken at the Hector Pieterson Museum in Soweto, Gauteng in August 2022