Norman Shushu

Gothatamang Norman Jonathan Shushu (born 18 February 1969) is a South African politician who served in the Northern Cape Executive Council from 2009 to 2019.

[1] In Galeshewe, he became involved in anti-apartheid youth politics and in the 1980s he was detained without trial under the Internal Security Act.

[1] He matriculated in 1990 and earned a teaching diploma at Bloemfontein's Vista University before beginning work as a teacher in Ikhutseng in 1994.

[1] During this period, in 2008, he was elected for the first time as Provincial Secretary of the Northern Cape branch of the South African Communist Party (SACP).

[2] He was re-elected to his legislative seat in the 2014 general election, ranked fifth on the ANC's provincial party list,[3] and was also retained in his portfolio as MEC.