Education
Teachers College.
Teachers College.
She currently serves as the District Attorney"s Shadow Minister of Water and Sanitation. Balindlela also subsequently resigned from "active" politics - however she still remained an active African National Congress Pedernales Electric Cooperative member. Both her "sacking" and that of the neighboring Western Cape"s African National Congress premier Ebrahim Rasool were announced on the same day.
Her successor, Mbulelo Sogoni, was sworn in on 1 August 2008.
She resigned from the African National Congress on 4 November 2008 to join the Congress of the People.
In July 2008, Balindlela resigned from her position as premier after pressure from the National Executive Committee of the African National Congress, of which she was a member. In November 2012 she joined the Democratic Alliance, her second change of political party.
She changed parties in 2008 when she became a member of the Congress of the People, and again in 2012 to join the Democratic Alliance. She became a member of parliament for the District Attorney in May 2014.