title: Sanele Magaqa
text: # Sanele Magaqa
  
  Sanele Magaqa is a South African politician and a member of the Eastern Cape Provincial Legislature for the Democratic Alliance (DA). He previously served as a DA councillor in the Buffalo City Metropolitan Municipality and the Amathole District Municipality.
  
  ## Political career
  
  Magaqa had served as a Democratic Alliance councillor in the Amathole District Municipality. He was then elected as a DA councillor in the Buffalo City Metropolitan Municipality in 2011. In September 2015, he resigned from the Buffalo City Council and was sworn in as a member of the Eastern Cape Provincial Legislature for the DA. He was appointed as Shadow MEC for Human Settlements. Magaqa was elected to a full term in the provincial legislature in 2019.
  
  ## Personal life
  
  In April 2018, Magaqa was hijacked by seven armed men in King William's Town in the Eastern Cape.
  
  In June 2021, Magaqa appeared in the Keiskammahoek Magistrate’s Court for allegedly assaulting a woman in Keiskammahoek back in December 2017.
  
  