After serving as a public representative for over 25 years, former Gauteng MEC for Roads and Transport, Ismail Vadi, will be leaving the National Assembly and the provincial legislature in the sixth democratic parliament.
Vadi is among those who were elected as members of parliament in the first democratic elections in 1994 and served as a member of parliament until 2010 before he was moved to the provincial legislature to serve as the MEC for Roads and Transport.
Vadi says it has been a great privilege and honour to serve as a public representative for a quarter century.
“I want to thank the ANC; my family, comrades and friends, and the people of our country for giving me an opportunity to serve in this capacity.”
Vadi also served on the parliamentary committees on education, public service and administration amongst others including chairing a sub-committee of the Constitutional Assembly that drafted the country’s constitution.
Vadi says he is not retiring from political and civic activism and will continue to work at the Ahmed Kathrada Foundation and the ANC
