Global InformationLanga Zita information
Langa Zita | |
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| Member of the National Assembly | |
| In office June 1999 – May 2009 | |
| Constituency | Gauteng |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 7 December 1967 |
| Citizenship | South Africa |
| Political party | African National Congress |
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Langa Zita (born 7 December 1967) is a South African politician and intellectual who represented the African National Congress (ANC) in the National Assembly from 1999 to 2009, serving the Gauteng constituency. A former regional organiser for the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) and a former political education officer at the South African Communist Party (SACP), Zita has served all three wings of the Tripartite Alliance. He was a member of the SACP Central Committee from 1998 to 2002.
After leaving Parliament in 2009, Zita served as a special adviser to Minister Tina Joemat-Pettersson and then, from 2010 to 2012, as her Director-General in the Department of Agriculture, Forestry, and Fisheries. He left that position in September 2012.