Nqabayomzi Kwankwa is a Member of Parliament of the Parliament of the Republic of South Africa since August 2013, and the Chief Whip of the United Democratic Movement (UDM) since May 2014 and the Deputy President of the UDM since December 2016. He joined the UDM in 2007 and was elected the party’s Deputy Secretary-General at its National Congress in December 2010, and serves as the UDM’s media spokesperson.
Kwankwa is the Chair of the Steering Committee of the African Parliamentarian Association for Human Rights (AfriPAHR), which is an independent, non-partisan network of parliamentarians from the African continent that works to advance democracy, freedom of religion or belief and human rights to build a fairer and inclusive Africa, through diplomacy and fostering strategic alliances between nations.