Alice Sigcawu
Alice Sigcawu | |
|---|---|
| Member of the National Assembly | |
| In office May 1994 – April 2004 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 28 August 1952 Tabankulu, Cape Province Union of South Africa |
| Political party | African National Congress |
Alice Nothembisa Sigcawu (born 28 August 1952) is a South African politician who represented the African National Congress (ANC) in the National Assembly from 1994 to 2004. In 2006, she was convicted of stealing from Parliament in the Travelgate scandal.
Early life
[edit]Sigcawu was born on 28 August 1952[1] in Tabankulu in present-day Eastern Cape.[2]
Political career
[edit]In South Africa's first post apartheid elections in 1994, Sigcawu was elected to represent the ANC in the National Assembly, the lower house of the new South African Parliament.[3] She was re-elected to a second term in the 1999 general election[1] and left Parliament after the 2004 general election.
After she left Parliament, Sigcawu was one of several MPs who faced criminal charges for abusing parliamentary travel vouchers in the Travelgate scandal.[4] In October 2006, she accepted a plea bargain with the Scorpions,[5] in terms of which she pled guilty to a single count of theft in connection with R120,000 in service benefits. She was sentenced to pay a fine of R50,000 or serve three years' imprisonment, and was also given a mandatory five-year prison sentence suspended conditionally for five years.[6]
References
[edit]- ^ a b "General Notice: Notice 1319 of 1999 – Electoral Commission: Representatives Elected to the Various Legislatures" (PDF). Government Gazette of South Africa. Vol. 408, no. 20203. Pretoria, South Africa: Government of South Africa. 11 June 1999. Retrieved 26 March 2021.
- ^ "Plea bargains expected at Travelgate trial". IOL. 30 July 2006. Retrieved 26 April 2023.
- ^ South Africa: Campaign and Election Report April 26–29, 1994. International Republican Institute. 1994. Retrieved 13 April 2023 – via Yumpu.
- ^ "MPs appear in court over travel scam". IOL. 18 February 2005. Retrieved 26 April 2023.
- ^ "Travelgate: 14 plead guilty". The Mail & Guardian. 16 October 2006. Retrieved 26 April 2023.
- ^ "National Prosecuting Authority on travel voucher fraud MPs". South African Government. 16 October 2006. Retrieved 26 April 2023.
- Living people
- 1952 births
- African National Congress politicians
- 21st-century South African women politicians
- 20th-century South African women politicians
- Members of the National Assembly of South Africa 1994–1999
- Members of the National Assembly of South Africa 1999–2004
- Women members of the National Assembly of South Africa
- South African politicians convicted of fraud
- People from Ntabankulu Local Municipality