Mzwandile Masina is the ANC’s new mayoral candidate for Ekurhuleni.
He is currently serving as the regional chairperson of the African National Congress (ANC) in Ekurhuleni. Previously, he was the chief executive officer at the Gauteng Film Commission, a statutory agency.
He also worked as deputy director-general at the Gauteng Department of Sport, Arts, Culture and Recreation.
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He also worked as chief director of the Department of Mineral Resources responsible for the Office of the Minister and later Special Projects. He worked as Director: Economic Empowerment in Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality and for the Ntsika Enterprise Promotion Agency as programme manager. He was also a Director: Business Development and Customer Care at the dti before joining Uthingo Management as General Manager: Empowerment.
He studied at the University of the Witwatersrand School of Governance in Public and Development Management as well as at the University of Pretoria, where he graduated with a Masters Degree specialising in entrepreneurship.
He has attained numerous international and local short executive and development programmes, where he gained knowledge and insight into various business management practices and policy environment.
At the age of 16, Masina became involved in youth active politics and became a full member of both the ANC and ANCYL after the organisation’s unbanning. He served in various capacities, from street, section to zone and branch leadership structures, before ascending to the regional and Gauteng provincial leadership of the ANCYL.
During this period, he was also active in student politics and went on to become the chairperson of the Congress of South African Students (COSAS) and later a member of the South African Student’s Congress (SASCO), where he was instrumental in championing progressive policies aimed at ensuring that more youth enroll in universities across the country.
Masina was named the Youth Leader of the Year in 1999 by the ABSA Foundation and the University of Johannesburg (previously Rand Afrikaans University for his outstanding leadership role.
In 2008, he was named the most innovative employee of the year by Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality, for the conceptualisation and successful implementation of the “One Company One Job” initiative.
