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Executive Council Of The Eastern Cape
The Executive Council of the Eastern Cape is the cabinet of the executive branch of the provincial government in the South African province of the Eastern Cape. The Members of the Executive Council (MECs) are appointed from among the members of the Eastern Cape Provincial Legislature by the Premier of the Eastern Cape, an office held since the 2019 general election by Oscar Mabuyane of the African National Congress (ANC). Kiviet premiership: 2009–2014 Following his election as Premier in the 2009 general election, Noxolo Kiviet announced his Executive Council in May 2009. On 27 November 2010, he announced a major cabinet reshuffle, which included restructuring more than half of the ten portfolios in the Executive Council. Masualle premiership: 2014–2019 Phumulo Masualle was elected Premier in the 2014 general election and he announced his new Executive Council on 23 May 2014. Near the end of his term, on 10 May 2018, Masualle announced a major reshuffle, effective ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Executive Council (South Africa)
In South Africa, the Executive Council of a province is the cabinet of the provincial government. The Executive Council consists of the Premier and five to ten other members,''Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, 1996'', Chapter 6: "Provinces", ss. 125–141 who have the title "Member of the Executive Council", commonly abbreviated to "MEC". MECs are appointed by the Premier from amongst the members of the provincial legislature; the Premier can also dismiss them. The provincial legislature may force the Premier to reconstitute the council by passing a motion of no confidence in the Executive Council excluding the Premier; if the legislature passes a motion of no confidence in the Executive Council ''including'' the Premier, then the Premier and the MECs must resign. The Premier designates powers and functions to the MECs; conventionally they are assigned portfolios in specific areas of responsibility. They are accountable to the provincial legislature, both indiv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thandiswa Marawu
Thandiswa Linnen Marawu is a South African politician from the African Transformation Movement. She has sat in the National Assembly of South Africa The National Assembly is the directly elected house of the Parliament of South Africa, located in Cape Town, Western Cape. It consists of four hundred members who are elected every five years using a party-list proportional representation syste ... since 2019. References Living people African Transformation Movement politicians Members of the Eastern Cape Provincial Legislature Members of the National Assembly of South Africa Women members of the National Assembly of South Africa 21st-century South African women politicians 21st-century South African politicians Year of birth missing (living people) Place of birth missing (living people) {{EasternCape-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Babalo Madikizela
Babalo Madikizela is a South African urban planner and politician who served as the Eastern Cape MEC for Public Works from May 2019 to July 2022 and as a Member of the Eastern Cape Provincial Legislature from November 2018 to August 2022. Madikizela served as the provincial treasurer of the African National Congress (ANC) from October 2017 to May 2022. Early life and education Madikizela was born in village of Mbhongweni, Bizana in the previous Cape Province, which became the Eastern Cape in 1994. He attended St. John's College from which he matriculated. He obtained a national diploma in town and regional planning from the ML Sultan Technikon, now the Durban University of Technology. Career Madikizela started his career as a planner for the Municipal Mentoring Programme (MMP) and later found employment as a housing manager at the Ingquza Hill Local Municipality. He then worked for a Wimpy restaurant in Mthatha and soon worked in the construction industry. Madikizela join ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nancy Sihlwayi
Nomadewuka Nancy Sihlwayi is a South African politician, who was elected to the National Assembly of South Africa in the 2019 general elections as a member of the African National Congress. She had previously served as the Member of the Executive Council (MEC) responsible for the Department of Social Development in the Eastern Cape provincial government. Sihlwayi currently serves as a member of the Portfolio Committee on Human Settlements. She was previously a member of the Portfolio Committee on Human Settlements, Water and Sanitation. References External linksProfileat Parliament of South Africa The Parliament of the Republic of South Africa is South Africa's legislature; under the present Constitution of South Africa, the bicameral Parliament comprises a National Assembly and a National Council of Provinces. The current twenty-seve ... Living people Place of birth missing (living people) Year of birth missing (living people) Xhosa people Politicians from th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sakhumzi Somyo
Sakhumzi Stoffels Somyo (born 1960) is a South African politician. A member of the African National Congress, he was elected to the Eastern Cape Provincial Legislature in 2014. He was then appointed as the Member of the Executive Council (MEC) responsible for the Finance, Economic Development, Environment and Tourism portfolio. In 2018, he was fired as an MEC. Somyo was elected to Parliament in 2019. Soon after, he was elected Chairperson of the Standing Committee on Auditor General. Early life and education Somyo was born in 1960. He matriculated from Jabavu High School. He completed a 3-year Teacher's Diploma at the Cape College of Education in Fort Beaufort. Somyo holds a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree and an Executive Management Certificate from the University of Fort Hare. He is busy completing his Master of Public Administration degree at Fort Hare. Political career Somyo served as the regional chairperson of the ANC's Amathole region in the Eastern Cape. He also served ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2014 South African General Election
General elections were held in South Africa on 7 May 2014, to elect a new National Assembly and new provincial legislatures in each province. It was the fifth election held in South Africa under conditions of universal adult suffrage since the end of the apartheid era in 1994, and also the first held since the death of Nelson Mandela. It was also the first time that South African expatriates were allowed to vote in a South African national election. The National Assembly election was won by the African National Congress (ANC), but with a reduced majority of 62.1%, down from 65.9% in the 2009 election. The official opposition Democratic Alliance (DA) increased its share of the vote from 16.7% to 22.2%, while the newly formed Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) obtained 6.4% of the vote. Eight of the nine provincial legislatures were won by the ANC. The EFF obtained over 10% of the vote in Gauteng, Limpopo and North West, and beat the DA to second place in the last two. In th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Xoliswa Tom
Xoliswa Sandra Tom is a South African politician who represented the African National Congress (ANC) in the National Assembly from 2014 to 2019. During that time she served as Chairperson of the Portfolio Committee on Arts and Culture. Before her election to the national legislature, Tom represented the ANC in the Eastern Cape Provincial Legislature, including as the Eastern Cape's Member of the Executive Council (MEC) for Sport, Recreation, Arts and Culture under Premier Noxolo Kiviet from 2009 to 2014. Legislative career Tom entered the Eastern Cape Provincial Legislature in March 2003, filling a casual vacancy that had arisen in the ANC caucus after Ncumisa Kondlo resigned to join the National Council of Provinces. In the 2009 general election, Tom was ranked 13th on the ANC's provincial party list, and, after the election, Premier Noxolo Kiviet announced that Tom would serve in her Executive Council as MEC for Sport, Recreation, Arts and Culture. Tom remained in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Queenie Mvana
Nonkosi Queenie Mvana is a South African politician. She is an African National Congress member of the Parliament of South Africa The Parliament of the Republic of South Africa is South Africa's legislature; under the present Constitution of South Africa, the bicameral Parliament comprises a National Assembly and a National Council of Provinces. The current twenty-seve .... She is chair of the parliamentary portfolio committee on social development. References Living people Members of the National Assembly of South Africa Women members of the National Assembly of South Africa Year of birth missing (living people) {{EasternCape-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mlibo Qoboshiyane
Mlibo Qoboshiyane is a South African politician who has been serving as Deputy Speaker of the Eastern Cape Provincial Legislature since 17 May 2018. Before that, he was the Eastern Cape's Member of the Executive Council for Rural Development and Agrarian Reform from 2014 to 2018 under Premier Phumulo Masualle. Political career In a cabinet reshuffle announced on 27 November 2010, Noxolo Kiviet, then the Premier of the Eastern Cape, appointed Qoboshiyane to the Eastern Cape Executive Council as Member of the Executive Council (MEC) for Local Government and Traditional Affairs. Qoboshiyane held that office until the 2014 general election, when he was re-elected to his seat in the Eastern Cape Provincial Legislature, ranked second on the provincial party list of the African National Congress (ANC). After the election, newly elected Premier Phumulo Masualle appointed him MEC for Rural Development and Agrarian Reform. Qoboshiyane remained in that portfolio until 9 May 201 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mbulelo Sogoni
Mbulelo Sogoni (born 16 January 1966) is a South African politician. A member of the African National Congress (ANC), Sogoni became the fourth Premier of the Eastern Cape on 25 July 2008 when he replaced Nosimo Balindlela until he was succeeded by Noxolo Kiviet on 6 May 2009 following 2009 election. Sogoni entered politics in the trade union movement during apartheid in South Africa and unsuccessfully lobbied for Thabo Mbeki Thabo Mvuyelwa Mbeki KStJ (; born 18 June 1942) is a South African politician who was the second president of South Africa from 14 June 1999 to 24 September 2008, when he resigned at the request of his party, the African National Congress (ANC ... to remain President of the ANC during the 2007 National Conference. Mail & Guardian, 26 July 2008 References ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rosemary Capa
Rosemary Nokuzola Capa , also known as Zoleka Capa, is a South African politician who has served as the Deputy Minister of Agriculture, Rural Development and Land Reform since August 2021. She was Deputy Minister of Small Business Development from May 2019 to August 2021. A member of the African National Congress, she has been a Member of the National Assembly since May 2014. From June 2014 to May 2019, she was the chairperson of the Portfolio Committee on Social Development. Early life and career Capa was born in Flagstaff in the Cape Province (now part of the Eastern Cape) during apartheid. She qualified as a nurse and midwife while a trainee at the Holy Cross Hospital in Flagstaff. After the end of apartheid, she spent two terms as the Executive Mayor of the OR Tambo District Municipality. In late 2010, she joined the Eastern Cape Provincial Legislature and was appointed to the Executive Council of the Eastern Cape as Member of the Executive Council (MEC) for Rural Devel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ghishma Barry
Gloria Ghishma Barry (died 24 November 2017) was a South African politician who represented the African National Congress (ANC) in the Eastern Cape Provincial Legislature. She served as the Eastern Cape's Member of the Executive Council (MEC) for Transport and Safety under Premier Noxolo Kiviet from May 2009 to November 2010. A founding member of the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa, she was also a former member of the Provincial Executive Committee of the ANC's Eastern Cape branch. Early career Barry was one of the founding members of the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa and served as its Regional Secretary. After the ANC was unbanned in 1990, she joined its interim leadership corps in the Eastern Cape. After the end of apartheid, she was elected to represent the party in the Eastern Cape Provincial Legislature, where she served for a period as Deputy Speaker. She also served as a member of the Provincial Executive Committee of the Eastern C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
