Lindiwe Ntshalintshali

Leonah Lindiwe Ntshalintshali (née Mabona; born 11 April 1977) is a South African politician who has been Deputy Minister of Correctional Services and a member of the National Assembly of South Africa since July 2024, representing the African National Congress. She was previously Mpumalanga's Member of the Executive Council for Arts, Sports, Culture and Recreation from 2019 to 2021 before serving as the MEC for Social Development from 2021 until 2024. Ntshalintshali was Mayor of Witbank's Emalahleni Local Municipality from 2015 to 2018.

A nurse by training, Ntshalintshali is a former member of the African National Congress (ANC) Youth League and entered government in 2006 as a local councillor in Emalahleni. While mayor, she became Deputy President of the South African Local Government Association. She left local government and the mayoral position in March 2018, when she became acting Provincial Secretary of the ANC in Mpumalanga. Pursuant to the 2019 general election, she was elected a Member of the Mpumalanga Provincial Legislature and was appointed to the Executive Council of Refilwe Mtsweni-Tsipane, the fifth Premier of Mpumalanga. She was elected to a second term as ANC Deputy Provincial Secretary in April 2022 and resigned to this post when she was elected the member of the ANC's National Executive Committee (NEC) in December 2022.