title: Fikile Xasa
text: # Fikile Xasa
  
  Fikile Devilliers Xasa is a South African politician currently serving as the Chairperson of the Portfolio Committee on Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs since 2021. He has been a Member of the National Assembly for the African National Congress since 2019.
  
  ## Political career
  
  Xasa had served as an ANC Member of the Eastern Cape Provincial Legislature. In May 2014, he was appointed by premier Phumulo Masualle as the Member of the Executive Council (MEC) responsible for Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs.
  
  Xasa was elected to the National Assembly in the 2019 general election from the ANC's National List. He was elected to chair the Portfolio Committee on Environment, Forestry and Fisheries.
  
  On 26 August 2021, the ANC announced that Xasa and the Chairperson of the Portfolio Committee on Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs, Faith Muthambi, would swap positions.
  
  