Ms Lindiwe Ntshalintshali was appointed as Deputy Minister of Correctional Services from 3 July 2024.
In 2005, she was elected to the Provincial Executive Committee of the African National Congress (ANC) Youth League in Mpumalanga. She entered government in 2006 as a local councillor in Emalahleni. She was re-elected to a second term as councillor in the 2011 municipal elections.
During her two terms as councillor, she was appointed a Member of the Mayoral Committee for Development and Planning and later for Technical Services. She served as Mayor of Emalahleni Local Municipality from 2015 to 2018.
She was a member of South African Local Government Association’s (SALGA) provincial executive between 2013 and 2015. In 2016, while still Mayor, Ms Ntshalintshali was elected as one of three deputy presidents of SALGA. She also served as president of the African section of the United Cities and Local Government.
Following the 2019 General Elections, she was elected a Member of the Mpumalanga Provincial Legislature. She served as a Member of the Executive Council (MEC) for Social Development in the Mpumalanga Provincial Government from February 2021. She was previously MEC for Arts, Sports, Culture and Recreation from 2019 to 2021.
A nurse by training, Ms Ntshalintshali was elected to a second term as ANC Deputy Provincial Secretary in April 2022 and resigned from this post when she was elected as a member of the ANC’s National Executive Committee in December 2022.
