Khume Ramulifho

South African politician

Khume Ramulifho MPL


Member of the Gauteng Provincial Legislature
Incumbent
Assumed office 6 May 2009

Personal details
Born	Nkhumeni Ramulifho (1979-02-27) 27 February 1979 (age 45) Lwamondo, Venda, South Africa
Political party	Democratic Alliance

Nkhumeni "Khume" Ramulifho (born 27 February 1979) is a South African politician of Rise Mzansi, previously the Democratic Alliance where he served as Federal Youth Leader and a member of the Gauteng Provincial Legislature for the party. From October 2011, he was the DA Gauteng South Chairperson, until joining Rise Mzansi in January 2024.^[1]^[2]^[3]

Political career

Ramulifho joined the Democratic Party (DP), the predecessor to the DA, in 1998 while still a student at the then Vaal Technikon, and spent the following years rising through the ranks of the party's youth movement.^[4]

After serving in various positions, he became the national leader of the DA Youth in 2008, a position he held until 2010. Ramulifho was elected to the Gauteng Provincial Legislature in 2009, and later served as DA's provincial spokesperson on education.^[5]

He ran unsuccessfully for one of the three DA Deputy Federal Chairperson positions in 2010, but was instead elected as the Regional Chairperson of the DA in Gauteng South the following year.^[4]

In March 2018, Ramulifho announced his candidacy for Deputy Chairperson of the Federal Council. He was not elected at the DA's elective congress.^[6]^[7]

In October 2019, Ramulifho declared his candidacy for the post of interim Federal Chairperson of the Democratic Alliance after Athol Trollip resigned.^[8] He lost to Ivan Meyer.

In January 2024, Ramulifho announced that he was leaving the DA to join Rise Mzansi.^[9]

References

^ "DA: Khume Ramulifho, Democratic Alliance Youth leader on his ANC counterpart Julius Malema". Archived from the original on 23 August 2009.
^ "Khume Ramulifho elected DA Gauteng South chairperson". Politicsweb. Retrieved 13 January 2013.
^ "Gauteng MPLs elected April 22".
^ ^a ^b Matlala, George. The ‘garden boy’ who became a DA leader, IOL – Sunday Independent, 19 March 2012. Retrieved on 21 September 2019.
^ "Top contender Ramulifho aims to change DA history". Independent Online. Retrieved 6 April 2018.
^ Dreyer, Anchen (18 March 2018). "DA nominates new leadership ahead of Federal Congress". www.da.org.za. Retrieved 14 November 2019.
^ Nicholson, Greg (8 April 2018). "DA Federal Congress: Trollip wins DA federal chair race but next hurdle – surviving a motion of no confidence – is already in sight". The Daily Maverick. Retrieved 14 November 2019.
^ Deklerk, Aphiwe (1 November 2019). "Mmusi Maimane allies in DA fightback". SowetanLIVE. Retrieved 14 November 2019. Ramulifho said he was standing for the position because his interest was to drive the debate towards the party's policy conference, which will be held next year.
^ Masuabi, Queenin (16 January 2024). "Ramulifho ditches DA and sets sail with Rise Mzansi". Daily Maverick. Retrieved 18 January 2024.