Member of the KwaZulu-Natal Provincial Legislature
Incumbent
Assumed office 14 June 2024
Member of the KwaZulu-Natal Provincial Legislature
In office 22 June 2023 – 25 February 2024
Member of the National Assembly of South Africa
In office 21 May 2014 – 30 January 2023
Personal details
Born
Mervyn Alexander Dirks
Nationality
South African
Political party
UMkhonto WeSizwe
Other political affiliations
African National Congress until Feb 2024
Profession
Politician
Mervyn Alexander Dirks is a South African politician who served as a Member of the KwaZulu-Natal Provincial Legislature from June 2023 until February 2024. A former member of the African National Congress, he previously served as a member of the National Assembly from May 2014 to January 2023.
During his tenure in parliament, he was the ANC's chief whip in the Standing Committee on Public Accounts until his suspension in January 2022. Dirks was a municipal councillor of the Msunduzi Local Municipality where he served as the deputy mayor.
Dirks joined Jacob Zuma's UMkhonto WeSizwe (MK) party in 2024 and was the MK party's KwaZulu-Natal legislature speaker candidate, however, he was defeated by Ntobeko Boyce of the African National Congress.[1]
^Maliti, Soyiso. "COALITION NATION | Re-elected as KZN speaker after IFP, DA backing, Boyce urges political cooperation". News24. Retrieved 14 June 2024.
Mervyn Alexander Dirks is a South African politician who served as a Member of the KwaZulu-Natal Provincial Legislature from June 2023 until February 2024...
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Alliance and National Freedom Party. Boyce received 41 votes and defeated MervynDirks of the UMkhonto WeSizwe party who received 39 votes with the support...
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Granada's courtroom drama series Crown Court along with his grandfather, actor Mervyn Johns, who played Arthur Charles Parfitt and Edward Lumsden. By the mid-1970s...
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the national film school of Italy and appeared as an uncredited extra in Mervyn LeRoy's 1951 film Quo Vadis, when she was 16 years old. That same year,...
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(1940), and They Died with Their Boots On (1941). De Havilland appeared in Mervyn LeRoy's historical drama Anthony Adverse (1936) with Fredric March. Based...
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history with one or more pistols. They invariably also carried swords and dirks. Border reivers were sometimes in demand as mercenary soldiers, owing to...
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