Gabriel Ndabandaba
Gabriel Ndabandaba | |
|---|---|
| Member of the National Assembly | |
| In office 6 May 2009 – 6 May 2014 | |
| Constituency | KwaZulu-Natal |
| In office June 1999 – 27 June 2001 | |
| Constituency | KwaZulu-Natal |
| KwaZulu-Natal Legislature | |
| In office July 2001 – May 2009 | |
| Member of the KwaZulu-Natal Executive Council for Agriculture and Environmental Affairs | |
| In office April 2004 – 1 November 2006 | |
| Premier | S'bu Ndebele |
| Succeeded by | Mtholephi Mthimkhulu |
| Member of the KwaZulu-Natal Executive Council for Education | |
| In office 6 July 2001 – 24 March 2003 | |
| Premier | Lionel Mtshali |
| Preceded by | Faith Gasa |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 14 April 1935 |
| Citizenship | South Africa |
| Political party | African National Congress (since March 2003) |
| Other political affiliations | Inkatha Freedom Party (until March 2003) |
| Children | 8, including Gabriel Siyabonga Ndabandaba (d. 2005) |
Lindumusa Bekizitha Gabriel Ndabandaba (born 14 April 1935) is a retired South African politician and academic who served in the National Assembly and KwaZulu-Natal Provincial Legislature from 1999 to 2014. He represented the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) until 2003, when he crossed the floor to the African National Congress (ANC).
Formerly a criminology professor in KwaZulu-Natal, Ndabandaba joined the National Assembly in 1999 as a member of the IFP. He left the national Parliament in June 2001 to join the KwaZulu-Natal Executive Council, where he served under Premier Lionel Mtshali as KwaZulu-Natal's Member of the Executive Council (MEC) for Education from 2001 to 2003. Citing his frustration with Mtshali, Ndabandaba crossed the floor to the ANC in March 2003.
As a representative of the ANC, Ndabandaba served under Premier S'bu Ndebele as MEC for Agriculture and Environmental Affairs from 2004 to 2006 and as Deputy Speaker of the KwaZulu-Natal Legislature from 2006 to 2009. In 2009, he concluded his eight-year service in the provincial legislature and returned to the National Assembly, where he served a single term for the ANC. He failed to gain re-election in the 2014 general election.