Rejoice Zibuyisile Phumlile Zulu is a South African politician who has represented the African National Congress (ANC) in the KwaZulu-Natal Provincial Legislature since February 2021.
[1] She was a member of the ANC and was elected to the Provincial Executive Committee of the party's KwaZulu-Natal branch in 2015.
[2][3] Mthembu resigned from the mayoral office after the 2019 general election and the provincial leadership of the ANC selected Zulu as the party's candidate to replace him.
However, Zulu's opponents inside her party repeatedly defied the ANC's instruction to elect Zulu as mayor; members of the ANC caucus in the council boycotted several council meetings in order to render them inquorate so that the mayoral vote could not proceed.
[8] In early 2021, however, the ANC announced that she would leave the KwaDukuza council to fill a casual vacancy in the provincial legislature.