Senzo Brian Mfayela (born 23 November 1961) is a South African businessman and former politician who represented the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) in the National Assembly from 1994 to 1999.
Born on 23 November 1961,[1] Mfayela attended Fort Hare University until he was expelled for participating in student-organised boycotts.
[2] His father represented the IFP (then called Inkatha) in the KwaZulu Legislative Assembly,[2] and he joined the party's Central Committee before the end of apartheid.
[6][7] He served a single term in his seat: although he was nominated to stand for re-election in 1999,[1] he narrowly failed to gain re-election, and weeks after the vote, he announced that he was leaving frontline politics to pursue a business career.
[8] After resigning from politics, he was appointed as an executive director at Masithembe Investments, a KwaZulu-Natal-based black economic empowerment consortium led by Ziba Jiyane.