Cape Town: Member of the National Assembly of South Africa – Senzo Mchunu, attended the ministry engagement along with the community of Hanover Park, held this past weekend.
At the meeting they welcomed the MEC: Police Oversight and Community Safety – Marais, as well as the Executive Mayor of the City of Cape Town – Councillor Geordin Hill-Lewis.
Mchunu, said that the meeting stems from the undertaking which they made at the engagement, that would be pooling resources together, all three spheres of government, to fight crime.
Edward Senzo Mchunu, is a South African politician currently serving as Minister of Police since June 30, 2024. He is a member of the African National Congress (ANC).
Highlighting his work profile, he has been a cabinet minister since May 2019. Formerly, he was also the Premier of KwaZulu-Natal between August 22, 2013 and May 23, 2016.
Mchunu is a trained teacher and was the inaugural Provincial Secretary of the ANC’s branch in KwaZulu-Natal after the establishment in the 1994 and he was first elected to the KwaZulu-Natal provincial Legislature in 1997.
While still being in the legislature, he returned to the ANC Provincial Secretary position from 2005 until May 2009, when he was appointed as Member of the Executive Council for Education in Zweli Mkhize’s provincial government.
Earlier, he was an ally of President Jacob Zuma, and was politically aligned to Cyril Ramaphosa by 2016. Back in 2017, he won the election to the ANC National Executive Committee and he subsequently served a brief stint as head of organising at Luthuli House, which is ANC’s national headquarters.
Being appointed to Ramaphosa’s cabinet after the general election of 2019, he served as Minister of Public Service and Administration from May 2019 to August 2021 and then as Minister of Water and Sanitation from August 2021 to June 2024, when he was appointed to his current position.
He was re-elected to a second five-year term on the ANC National Executive Committee in December 2022.