# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ela-gandhi
# Generated: 2026-09-01T07:02:48.470Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ela-gandhi"
name: "Ela Gandhi"
slug: "ela-gandhi"
description: "Ela Gandhi, is a South African peace activist and former politician. She served as a Member of Parliament in South Africa from 1994 to 2004, where she aligned with the African National Congress (ANC) party representing the Phoenix area of Inanda in the KwaZulu-Natal province. Her parliamentary committee assignments included the Welfare, and Public Enterprises committees as well as the ad hoc committee on Surrogate Motherhood. She was an alternate member of the Justice Committee and served on Theme Committee 5 on Judiciary and Legal Systems. She is the granddaughter of Mahatma Gandhi."
tagline: "South African politician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ela-gandhi-2018-phoenix.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "South Africa"
  isoCode: "ZA"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1940-07-01"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             13.07588741938875
  historical:           18.31395066666667
  currentAttention:     28.50995158687466
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  172
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "nm3153701"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump