Hlomela Bucwa

In November 2016, Hlomela Bucwa was sworn into parliament to represent the Democratic Alliance (DA) in the National Assembly. She was then still completing her final year LLB at Nelson Mandela University. When this interview was conducted, Bucwa was the youngest member of the National Assembly. Since 2019, she is working for the office of the Democratic Alliance and has become the political assistant to DA members of the provincial legislature in the Eastern Cape. Bucwa has recently obtained her LLB from Nelson Mandela University. She seeks to pursue a master's degree in public administration in the future. This chapter is based on an interview conducted by Thierry Luescher on 11 September 2018.