Zelda Jongbloed (née Erasmus; 3 October 1950 – 21 July 2018) was a veteran South African journalist and politician.
[1] Zelda Erasmus was born on 3 October 1950 in Great Brak River in the Cape Province.
In 1976, she and her then-husband started the Herald Het Suid Western weekly newspaper in the town of George.
[2] In 1979, Jongbloed was appointed a senior journalist at the now-defunct Evening Post in Port Elizabeth.
[2] Following her election to the National Assembly of South Africa in May 2014, DA Parliamentary Leader Mmusi Maimane appointed her to the post of Deputy Shadow Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries.
[4][5] Jongbloed died of cancer on 21 July 2018 in her home in the Mowbray suburb of Cape Town.