Sithembiso Wiseman Mshengu is a South African politician who has represented the African National Congress (ANC) in the KwaZulu-Natal Provincial Legislature since 2019.
He was elected to the provincial legislature in the 2019 general election, ranked 35th on the ANC's provincial party list.
[1] Formerly an activist in the ANC Youth League in KwaZulu-Natal,[2] Mshengu rose to prominence as the spokesperson for a group of ANC members who took the party to court and successfully applied for the nullification of the provincial party's December 2015 leadership elections.
[3][4] The group was aligned to Senzo Mchunu, who, during the 2015 elections, had been ousted as ANC Provincial Chairperson by Sihle Zikalala.
[5] During this period, as the ANC's 54th National Conference approached, Mshengu was also an outspoken supporter of – and on some accounts an official lobbyist for[6][7] – Cyril Ramaphosa's campaign to be elected ANC President.