Zukisa Cheryl Faku (born 1965) is a South African politician and convicted fraudster from the Eastern Cape.
When she was five years old, she and her family were forced to relocate to the Mdantsane township due to the Group Areas Act instituted by the white minority government.
In April 2013, Faku was selected to go to the National Council of Provinces, the upper house of the South African parliament, to fill the casual vacancy that arose following the resignation of Siphiwo Mazosiwe.
[4] In March 2016, Faku was convicted on nine counts of fraud and theft‚ stemming from her tenure as mayor when she used her official municipal credit card for personal purchases while on business trips to Turkey and within South Africa in 2009.
[7] Faku then began a process of appealing the ruling and continued serving as an ANC MP until the 2019 general election where she was re-elected to a second term in the National Assembly.