Ciska Jordaan
Ciska Jordaan is a South African politician and a member of the Democratic Alliance (DA). She has been a Member of the National Assembly since June 2024 and sits on the Portfolio Committee on Basic Education.
She was born in Trichardt and grew up in Secunda, Mpumalanga, as one of six siblings. She attended local schools before spending three years in Saudi Arabia, where she completed high school at the American School Dhahran. She earned a bachelor’s degree in psychology, philosophy, and French from the University of Pretoria in 2010.
Jordaan entered politics in 2014. She served as a DA councillor on the Govan Mbeki Local Municipality council in Mpumalanga from 2015 to 2022. At 23, she was the youngest DA caucus member on the council when she joined in 2015. She was the DA’s chief whip from 2016 to 2018 and then the caucus leader from 2018 to 2021. She also served as deputy chair of the DA’s Mpumalanga branch from 2020 to 2022.
In 2022, she left the council to work as a leadership development coordinator for the DA, focusing on training candidates for office. She was elected to the National Assembly in the 2024 national elections and sworn in on 25 June 2024. Jordaan is married to Jonathan Jordaan.
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