Princess Faku (born 1981 or 1982) is a South African politician who has been mayor of the Buffalo City Metropolitan Municipality since March 2023.
[1] As a member of the African National Congress, Faku served as the secretary of an ANC branch in the Buffalo City region and as treasurer of the party's youth league in the Eastern Cape.
[4] In October 2021, Faku was listed as an ANC councillor candidate for the Buffalo City Metropolitan Municipality council for the local government elections of 1 November 2021.
[6] Nonetheless, incumbent mayor Xola Pakati was selected by the National Executive Committee of the African National Congress to be the party's candidate for mayor on 21 November reportedly over concerns that Faku did not have the proper qualifications as per the party requisite.
[10] On 8 March 2023, it was announced that the Provincial Working Committee of the ANC in the Eastern Cape had "recalled" Pakati as mayor of Buffalo City due to poor audit outcomes, wasteful expenditure and failure to collect revenue during his mayoral term.