Collen Sedibe
Michael Collen Sedibe (born 23 September 1971) is a South African politician who is currently a Member of the Mpumalanga Provincial Legislature and the provincial leader of the legislature's official opposition party, the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF). He joined the EFF in 2013 after he was expelled from the African National Congress and he was first elected to the provincial legislature in the 2014 general election. In September 2022, he was elected to a third term as the EFF's Provincial Chairperson in Mpumalanga. Early life and education Sedibe was born on 23 September 1971. According to the EFF, he was active in the South African Youth Congress and Congress of South African Students in the 1980s. He was arrested for his anti-apartheid activism. He matriculated in 1992 and in 1994 he enrolled in a public management degree at the University of the North at Turfloop, where he joined the South African Students Congress. He was later active in the trade union movement and also joined the African National Congress (ANC) and its Youth League; his local ANC branch was in White River in Mpumalanga. In 2017 he completed a Master's degree in public management at Regenesys Business School. African National