Zanele kaMagwaza-Msibi is a former South African parliamentarian who was the Deputy Minister of Science and Technology of South Africa in the cabinet of Jacob Zuma.
She is also President of the National Freedom Party (NFP).
Prior to being elected to Parliament, she served for nineteen years as a councillor, fifteen of those years as Mayor of the Zululand District Municipality.
She was formerly chairperson of the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) and the IFP's candidate for Premier of KwaZulu-Natal in the 2009 general election.
On 7 May 2014 her new party successfully contested the 2014 South African general elections by receiving 288,742 (1.57%) of the national votes.
This outcome placed the NFP in fifth place, winning 6 seats in the National Assembly.