Andile Lungisa

Andile Lungisa
Member of mayoral committee (MMC) for the Department of Infrastructure and Engineering at the Nelson Mandela Bay Metropolitan Municipality
In office
27 August 2018 – 2 August 2020
Deputy President of the African National Congress Youth League
In office
April 2008 – June 2011
Preceded byRubben Mohlaloga
Succeeded byRonald Lamola
Chairperson of the National Youth Development Agency
In office
April 2009 – April 2013
Preceded byoffice established
Succeeded byYeshern Pillay
President of the Pan-African Youth Union
In office
December 2011 – November 2014
Personal details
CitizenshipSouth Africa
NationalitySouth African
Political partyAfrican National Congress
SpouseUrsula Sali
RelationsMarried
ResidencePort Elizabeth

Andile Lungisa (born 21 December 1979 in Tsomo, Chris Hani District Municipality in the Eastern Cape) is a South African politician and the former deputy president of the African National Congress Youth League (ANCYL). Lungisa is also the former chairperson of the National Youth Development Agency (NYDA) of South Africa as well as the former President of the Pan-African Youth Union (PYU) and councillor of the ANC at the Nelson Mandela Bay Metropolitan Municipality in Port Elizabeth.[1][2][3] He was released from prison on 1 December 2020 after serving only two months of his two-year prison sentence for assaulting an opposition councillor during a brawl in a council session.[4][5]

  1. ^ Lungisa is a man of talents, [Sowetan Live, 11 June 2009. Retrieved 21 April 2020
  2. ^ Lungisa elected president of Pan-African Youth Union - ANCYL, Politics Web, 8 December 2011. Retrieved 21 April 2020
  3. ^ Nelson Mandela Bay ANC still battling factionalism, 9 September 2016. Retrieved 21 April 2020
  4. ^ Tandwa, Lizeka (17 September 2020). "After long saga, former ANCYL leader Andile Lungisa starts two-year jail term, NPA confirms".
  5. ^ Andile Lungisa released from prison, IOL. Retrieved 2 March 2022

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