title: Robert Nogumla
text: # Robert Nogumla
  
  Robert Zamxolo Nogumla (born 1 August 1956) is a South African politician from the Eastern Cape. A member of the African National Congress (ANC), he served terms in the National Council of Provinces, the National Assembly, and the Eastern Cape Provincial Legislature.
  
  ## Political career
  
  In the 1994 general election, Nogumla was elected to an ANC seat in the Eastern Cape caucus of the Senate of South Africa; he remained in his seat after the Senate was relaunched as the National Council of Provinces under the 1996 Constitution. In the next general election in 1999, he was elected to the Eastern Cape Provincial Legislature, where he served for a single term until, in 2004, he was elected to the National Assembly, representing the Eastern Cape constituency. In 2006, he pled guilty in the trial resulting from the Travelgate scandal.
  
  In 2021 he became mayor of OR Tambo District Municipality. He previously served as deputy mayor.
  
  