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More than half of committee’s MPs, including former chair, lose seats in power-shifting ballot
More than half of the MPs who served on South Africa’s Portfolio Committee on Higher Education, Science and Innovation in the last parliament have lost their seats, Research Professional News can reveal.
Most notably, chair Nompendulo Mkhatshwa (pictured) has lost her seat after her African National Congress party bled votes in the polls on 29 May, taking it down to a historic low of just over 40 per cent.
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