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Executive Council Of Gauteng
The Executive Council of Gauteng is the cabinet of the executive branch of the provincial government in the South African province of Gauteng. The Members of the Executive Council (MECs) are appointed from among the members of the Gauteng Provincial Legislature by the Premier of Gauteng, an office held since October 2022 by Panyaza Lesufi. Sexwale and Motshekga premierships: 1994–1999 The first Premier of Gauteng, Tokyo Sexwale, was elected to office in the 1994 general election and appointed Gauteng's inaugural Executive Council, with representation for the opposition National Party (NP) in line with the constitutional requirement to form a Government of National Unity. Premier Mathole Motshekga, who took office after Sexwale's resignation in 1998, largely preserved Sexwale's Executive Council. Shilowa premiership First term: 1999–2004 In June 1999, pursuant to the 1999 general election, newly elected Premier Mbhazima Shilowa announced his new Executive Counci ... [...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] |
Amos Masondo
Nkosiyakhe Amos Masondo (born 21 April 1953 in Louwsburg) is a South African politician, who has served as the Chairperson of South Africa's National Council of Provinces since 23 May 2019. He was the mayor of the city of Johannesburg, South Africa, between December 2000 and 2011. He is a member of the African National Congress, and was the first elected mayor of the Unified City of Johannesburg. Biography Born in Louwsburg and educated in Soweto, Masondo was a participant in the anti-Afrikaans riots in 1972. He also established underground Umkhonto we Sizwe cells in Soweto, and was imprisoned on Robben Island from 1975 to 1981 for his participation in anti-apartheid activities. After he was released, he served as a member of the Soweto Civic Association, and was again detained under the emergency regulations from June 1985 to March 1986, and again from July 1986 to 1989. He was also elected as a member of the Gauteng Legislature, and was subsequently elected to serve as Mayor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1999 South African General Election
General elections were held in South Africa on 2 June 1999. The result was a landslide victory for the governing African National Congress (ANC), which gained fourteen seats. Incumbent president Nelson Mandela declined to seek re-election as president on grounds of his age. This election was notable for the sharp decline of the New National Party, previously the National Party (NP), which without former State President F.W. de Klerk lost more than half of their former support base. The liberal Democratic Party became the largest opposition party, after being the fifth largest party in the previous elections in 1994. The number of parties represented in the National Assembly increased to thirteen, with the United Democratic Movement, jointly headed by former National Party member Roelf Meyer, and former ANC member Bantu Holomisa, being the most successful of the newcomers with fourteen seats. National Assembly results Provincial legislature results Eastern Cape F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Skosana
Peter may refer to: People * List of people named Peter, a list of people and fictional characters with the given name * Peter (given name) ** Saint Peter (died 60s), apostle of Jesus, leader of the early Christian Church * Peter (surname), a surname (including a list of people with the name) Culture * Peter (actor) (born 1952), stage name Shinnosuke Ikehata, Japanese dancer and actor * ''Peter'' (album), a 1993 EP by Canadian band Eric's Trip * ''Peter'' (1934 film), a 1934 film directed by Henry Koster * ''Peter'' (2021 film), Marathi language film * "Peter" (''Fringe'' episode), an episode of the television series ''Fringe'' * ''Peter'' (novel), a 1908 book by Francis Hopkinson Smith * "Peter" (short story), an 1892 short story by Willa Cather Animals * Peter, the Lord's cat, cat at Lord's Cricket Ground in London * Peter (chief mouser), Chief Mouser between 1929 and 1946 * Peter II (cat), Chief Mouser between 1946 and 1947 * Peter III (cat), Chief Mouser between 1947 a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sakkie Blanché
Johannes Petrus Izak "Sakkie" Blanché is a South African politician who served in Parliament both before and after the end of apartheid, representing variously the National Party (NP), the Federal Alliance (FA), and the Democratic Alliance (DA). He also served in the Gauteng Executive Council. Blanché represented the NP in Parliament during apartheid; the ''Mail & Guardian'' said that he was "an arch-conservative". When the FA was founded in 1998, Blanché left the NP to become the FA's provincial leader in Gauteng, an office he held from August 1999 to December 2003. During that time, on 2 February 2001, Blanché was returned to Parliament, taking up a seat in the National Assembly that had been vacated by the FA's Louis Luyt. Although the FA's union with the DA was short-lived, Blanché remained with the DA and stood on its list for re-election to the National Assembly in 2004 2004 was designated as an International Year of Rice by the United Nations, and the I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sicelo Shiceka
Sicelo Shiceka South African Government Information Site (8 June 1966 – 30 April 2012) was a South African politician. A member of the , Shiceka was a member of the and was chosen by President Jacob Zuma as the |
Olaus Van Zyl
Olaf or Olav (, , or British ; Old Norse: ''Áleifr'', ''Ólafr'', ''Óleifr'', ''Anleifr'') is a Scandinavian and German given name. It is presumably of Proto-Norse origin, reconstructed as ''*Anu-laibaz'', from ''anu'' "ancestor, grand-father" and ''laibaz'' "heirloom, descendant". Old English forms are attested as ''Ǣlāf'', ''Anlāf''. The corresponding Old Novgorod dialect form is ''Uleb''. A later English form of the name is ''Olave''. In the Norwegian language, ''Olav'' and ''Olaf'' are equally common, but Olav is traditionally used when referring to Norwegian royalty. The Swedish form is ''Olov'' or ''Olof'', and the Danish form is ''Oluf''. It was borrowed into Old Irish and Scots with the spellings ''Amlaíb'' and ''Amhlaoibh'', giving rise to modern version ''Aulay''. The name is Latinized as ''Olaus''. Notable people North Germanic ;Denmark *Olaf I of Denmark, king 1086–1095 *Olaf II of Denmark, also Olaf IV of Norway *Oluf Haraldsen (died c. 1143), Danish ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joyce Kgoali
Joyce Leswana Kgoali (13 January 1950 – 21 November 2004) was a South African politician. A member of the African National Congress, she served as the Chairperson of the National Council of Provinces from May 2004 until her death in November 2004. She was a Member of the Executive Council in the Gauteng provincial government from 1998 to 1999 and the chairperson of the ANC's parliamentary caucus between 2002 and 2004. Life and career Kgoali was born on 13 January 1950 in Basutoland (now Lesotho). Kgoali was a trade unionist in the textile industry. She was a member of the United Democratic Front whilst she was involved in the Federation of Transvaal Women. She later joined the African National Congress Women's League. Kgoali was active in the party's underground networks. After the 1994 general election, Kgoali became a Delegate of the Senate, which became the National Council of Provinces in 1997. Gauteng premier Mathole Motshekga appointed her the MEC for Transport in 199 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jessie Duarte
Yasmin "Jessie" Duarte (; 19 September 1953 – 17 July 2022) was a South African politician and acting secretary-general of the African National Congress. A longtime anti-apartheid activist, she served variously as a special assistant to Nelson Mandela, a member of the provincial cabinet (MEC) for Gauteng, as ambassador to Mozambique, and as spokesperson for the ANC, before assuming her post as Deputy Secretary-General of the ANC in 2012, until her death on 17 July 2022. Early life and career Yasmin Dangor was born on 19 September 1953 in Coronationville on Johannesburg's West Rand and grew up in nearby Westbury and Newclare. One of nine children to Julie and Ebrahim Dangor, she was the sister of the poet and activist Achmat Dangor. After matriculation from Coronationville Secondary School in Johannesburg, Duarte started her professional career as a management accountant. By 1979, she was recruited by Albertina Sisulu to set up women’s structures throughout South Afric ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Mashatile
Paul Shipokosa Mashatile (born 21 October 1961) is a South African politician who is currently the Deputy President of the governing African National Congress (ANC). Before his election to that position in December 2022, he was ANC Treasurer General from December 2017 and acting ANC Secretary General from January 2022. Formerly an anti-apartheid activist in the United Democratic Front, Mashatile was a member of President Jacob Zuma's first cabinet, serving as Minister of Arts and Culture between 2010 and 2014. Before that, he was briefly Premier of Gauteng province from 2008 to 2009. Between 1996 and 2008, and later between 2014 and 2018, he held several ministerial portfolios in the Gauteng provincial government. He remains especially influential in Gauteng, his home province, where he was also ANC Provincial Chairperson between 2007 and 2017. Early life and activism Mashatile was born on 21 October 1961 in Gerhardsville, Tshwane, in what is now Gauteng province. His mo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Mavuso
John Solane Absolom Mavuso (1926 – 24 May 2011) was a South African politician who served as Minister for General Services in Nelson Mandela's Government of National Unity between March and June 1996. He represented the National Party in Parliament. However, in the 1950s, Mavuso was a Treason Triallist and a member of the National Executive Committee of the African National Congress. Early life and activism Mavuso was born in 1926 in Ermelo in the former Eastern Transvaal, now Mpumalanga Province. He joined the African National Congress (ANC) in 1948, the year that the National Party (NP) came to power with a mandate to implement apartheid, and he was active in the ANC's Alexandra branch while working as a messenger and shopkeeper in Johannesburg. He was a member of the ANC's National Executive Committee (NEC) from 1955 to 1956. He was banned several times under the Suppression of Communism Act and in December 1956 he was arrested in Johannesburg and charged with treaso ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nomvula Mokonyane
Nomvula Paula Mokonyane (born 28 June 1963) is a South African politician who is currently the First Deputy Secretary-General of the African National Congress (ANC). She was the first female Premier of Gauteng from 2009 to 2014 and subsequently served in the Government of South Africa, national government as Minister of Water and Sanitation (South Africa), Minister of Water and Sanitation from 2014 to 2018, Minister of Communications (South Africa), Minister of Communications in 2018, and Minister of Environmental Affairs from 2018 to 2019. Born in Gauteng, Mokonyane was a labour, community, and gender activist during apartheid. She was first elected as a Member of the Provincial Legislature, Member of the Gauteng Provincial Legislature in 1994 South African general election, 1994 and she served as a Member of the Executive Council in Gauteng from 1996 to 2009. Following the 2009 South African general election, 2009 general election, Mokonyane, then the Provincial Chairperson ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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