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Bennet Mzwenqaba Bhanga

Politician

Bennet Mzwenqaba Bhanga is a politically exposed person. They are a person of interest by virtue of their position and the influence they may hold. They have not been found on international sanctions lists.

Type	Person				[sources]
Name	Bennet Mzwenqaba Bhanga				[sources]
Birth date	1977-08-28				[sources]
Gender	male				[sources]
Nationality	South Africa				[sources]
Country	South Africa				[sources]
Classification	National government (past) · State government (past)				[sources]
First name	Bennet Mzwenqaba				[sources]
Last name	Bhanga				[sources]
Title	Mr				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q47890991				[sources]
Position	Congress of the People (COPE) (Member, -2014) · DA Constituency Area: Ngqura (Constituency Contact, 2014-2016) · Democratic Alliance (DA) (Member, 2014-2023) · Democratic Alliance National Election List 2014 (80th Candidate, 2014-2014) · Democratic Alliance Provincial Eastern Cape Election List 2019 (1st Candidate, 2019-2019) · 13 more...				[sources]
Source link	www.pa.org.za				[sources]
Last change	2025-07-01	Last processed	2025-11-20	First seen	2019-05-21

Descriptions

South African politician

— Wikidata non-official source, 2023-07-18

Relationships

Positions held
Position occupied	Start date	End date
Member of the National Assembly	2014-05-21	2016-08-06
member of the National Assembly of South Africa

Data sources

Every Politician57,893

All members of national legislatures in the world, collected from hundreds of government web sites and consolidated via Wikidata.

Global · MySociety · non-official source

Wikidata Politically Exposed Persons276,845

Profiles of politically exposed persons from Wikidata, the structured data version of Wikipedia.

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

Wikidata Persons in Relevant Categories381,065

Category-based imports from Wikidata, the structured data version of Wikipedia.

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

South Africa National and Provincial Legislators1,965

Current members of the National Assembly, National Council of Provinces, and provincial legislatures and executives in South Africa.

South Africa · PMG · non-official source

External databases

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PEP position annotations by OpenSanctions552,602

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External dataset · OpenSanctions · non-official source

Wikidata353,755

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External dataset · Global · Wikidata · non-official source

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