Phumzile van damme biography

South African activist and politician (born 1983)

Phumzile Thelma Van Damme (born 20 July 1983) is a South African tech consultant and activist who specialises in combating political disinformation and misinformation.

A former politician, she represented the Democratic Alliance (DA) in the National Assembly of South Africa between May 2014 and May 2021. She was the party's ShadowMinister of Communications from October 2015 to December 2020.

Phumzile van damme biography

Van Damme began her career as a political staffer for the DA and joined the National Assembly in the May 2014 general election. In addition to serving as Shadow Minister of Communications, she was the DA's national spokesperson between May 2014 and February 2018 and a party whip between May 2019 and May 2021.

In the communications portfolio, she was a prominent figure in the campaign to hold Bell Pottinger accountable for its white monopoly capital disinformation campaign, and she pioneered the South African Parliament'