Veliswa Mvenya information

Veliswa Mvenya
Mvenya in July 2010
Member of the Eastern Cape Provincial Legislature
In office 22 May 2019 – 1 June 2021
In office 2004–2018
Provincial Chairperson of the Democratic Alliance
In office November 2014 – 19 May 2016
Preceded by	Edmund van Vuuren
Succeeded by	Andrew Whitfield
Personal details
Born	Veliswa Mvenya (1969-03-08) 8 March 1969 (age 55) Ntseshe, Ngqamakhwe, Cape Province
Nationality	South African
Political party	Batho Pele Movement (2021–present)
Other political affiliations	African Transformation Movement (2018–2021) Democratic Alliance (2000–2018)
Children	2
Profession	Educator Politician

Veliswa Mvenya (born 8 March 1969) is a South African politician who is the founding leader of the Batho Pele Movement, a party she founded in June 2021 after leaving the African Transformation Movement.

A former mathematics teacher, Mvenya had joined the Democratic Alliance in 2000 and served as a DA councillor in the Amathole District Municipality until 2004 when she was elected to the Eastern Cape Provincial Legislature as a DA representative. She was re-elected in 2009 and 2014. In 2014, she was elected as the provincial chairwoman of the DA in the Eastern Cape. Mvenya held the position until her 'shock' resignation in May 2016. She resigned from the DA in May 2018 and joined the ATM in September 2018. Mvenya was the party's premier candidate for the May 2019 election. At the election, she was elected as the ATM's sole representative in the legislature. In June 2021, she resigned from the ATM and established the Batho Pele Movement.