In 2021, he was elected chairperson of the national parliament's Committee for the Section 194 Enquiry into Busisiwe Mkhwebane's fitness to hold office.
[1] His mother, who was divorced from his father, was a domestic worker, and as a child he lived with his grandparents, who were farm labourers.
[2] He matriculated in 1989 from All Saints College in Bisho, a private school which he attended on a scholarship and where he was first-team rugby captain.
[7] On 20 July 2021, he was elected unopposed to chair the assembly's Committee for the Section 194 Enquiry into the fitness to hold office of the incumbent Public Protector, Busisiwe Mkhwebane.
[9] Public Protector at the time, Busisiwe Mkhwebane, laid a complaint against three ANC MPs, Dyantyi, Pemmy Majodina and Tina Joemat-Pettersson with Parliament's Joint Committee on Ethics and Members' Interests.