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Limpopo Executive Council
The Executive Council of Limpopo is the cabinet of the executive branch of the provincial government in the South African province of Limpopo. The Members of the Executive Council (MECs) are appointed from among the members of the Limpopo Provincial Legislature by the Premier of Limpopo, an office held since July 2013 by Stan Mathabatha. Mathale premiership: 2009–2013 Cassel Mathale was elected to his first full term as Premier in the 2009 general election and on 6 May 2009 announced his new Executive Council, in which seven of ten MECs were new to the provincial cabinet. In August 2009, Public Works MEC Pandelani Ramagoma died and was replaced by George Phadagi. However, Phadagi and others were moved to new portfolios on 28 January 2011, when a cabinet reshuffle was announced. A subsequent reshuffle was announced on 13 March 2012 and saw four ministers exit the Executive Council: Phadagi, Dikeledi Magadzi, and Joyce Mashamba were fired, while Soviet Lekganyane resig ... [...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] |
Saad Cachalia
Saa'd Cachalia is a South African politician and diplomat who represented the African National Congress (ANC) in the Limpopo Provincial Legislature from 1994 to 2012. A lawyer by training, he was Limpopo's Member of the Executive Council (MEC) for Treasury from 2006 to 2011. He left provincial politics in 2012 and subsequently served as the South African Ambassador to Qatar and as South African Ambassador to the United Arab Emirates. Political career Cachalia practiced as a lawyer during apartheid. In South Africa's first democratic elections in 1994, he was elected to represent the ANC in the Limpopo Provincial Legislature, where he served continuously until 2012. In November 2006, he was appointed to the Limpopo Executive Council by Premier Sello Moloto, who named him MEC for Treasury. Pursuant to the 2009 general election, he was re-elected to his seat in the Limpopo Provincial Legislature, ranked 21st on the ANC's provincial party list, and he was retained in th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seaparo Sekoati
Seaparo Charles Sekoati (born 28 June 1967), sometimes misspelled Seaparo Sekwati, is a South African politician who is currently serving in the Limpopo provincial government as Member of the Executive Council (MEC) for Finance. He has been a Member of the Limpopo Provincial Legislature since 2004 and was previously MEC for Health and Social Development from 2004 to 2009 and, before his appointment to his current position, MEC for Economic Development, Environment and Tourism from 2013 to 2019. From 2013 to 2017, he was also Regional Chairperson of the Mopani branch of his political party, the African National Congress. Early life and education Sekoati was born on 28 June 1967 in Sekhukhuneland and grew up in Mopani, now part of Limpopo province. He matriculated at Vuxeni High School in 1988. He later earned a Bachelor's degree in social science from the University of the North in 1993 and a Master's degree in development from the University of Limpopo in 2011; he also ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rudolph Phala
Kgolane Alfred "Rudolph" Phala is a South African politician who has represented the African National Congress (ANC) in the Limpopo Provincial Legislature since 2004. During that time, he served as Limpopo's Member of the Executive Council (MEC) for Treasury from 2013 to 2015 and as Speaker of the Limpopo Provincial Legislature from 2009 to 2013. Life and career Phala trained and practiced as a lawyer. During the 1980s, he was active in the anti-apartheid student movement, and he was appointed as the ANC's political education officer in the Limpopo region after the organisation was unbanned in 1990. He was also a longstanding member of the South African Communist Party. He joined the Limpopo Provincial Legislature in 2004 and chaired the legislature's Standing Committee on Public Accounts. In May 2009, shortly after his re-election to the legislature in the 2009 general election, Phala was elected to succeed Tshenuwani Farisani as Speaker of the Limpopo Provincial L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stan Mathabatha
Chupu Stanley Mathabatha (born 21 January 1957) is a South African politician who is currently the Premier of Limpopo. He was elected to the position in July 2013 after the resignation of Cassel Mathale. He was previously a public servant in Limpopo province and from 2012 to 2013 completed a brief stint as a diplomat, serving as South African Ambassador to Ukraine under President Jacob Zuma. A former member of Umkhonto we Sizwe and the United Democratic Front, Mathabatha was elected the Provincial Chairperson of the African National Congress (ANC) in Limpopo in February 2014. He was elected to a third four-year term as ANC Provincial Chairperson in June 2022. He is also a member of the Central Committee of the South African Communist Party. Early life and education Chupu Stanley Mathabatha was born on 21 January 1957. He is from the Sekhukhune region of what is now the Limpopo province of South Africa; at the time of Mathabatha's birth, during apartheid, it was part o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clifford Motsepe
Nkomotana Clifford Motsepe (born 25 May 1974) is a South African politician and public servant who served in the Limpopo Executive Council from March 2012 to July 2013. He was Member of the Executive Council (MEC) for Cooperative Governance, Human Settlements and Traditional Affairs under Premier Cassel Mathale. He is a member of the African National Congress (ANC), an alumnus of the ANC Youth League, and a former member of the Provincial Executive Committee of the ANC's Limpopo branch. Early life and education Motsepe was born on 25 May 1974 and his home language is Northern Sotho. He received both a BProc and an LLB from the University of Limpopo, in 1996 and 1998 respectively. Career Motsepe spent his early career working in public administration. Most proximately, he was municipal manager at Limpopo's Waterberg District Municipality from 2007 to 2009 and then a senior manager in the office of the Premier of Limpopo – then occupied by Cassel Mathale – from 200 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thabitha Mohlala
Thabitha Mohlala is a South African politician and public servant who represented the African National Congress (ANC) in the Limpopo Provincial Legislature until 2014. She served as Limpopo's Member of the Executive Council (MEC) for Public Works under Premier Cassel Mathale from January 2011 until July 2013. She failed to gain re-election to the provincial legislature in the 2014 general election. Political career Mohlala was not initially elected to the Limpopo Provincial Legislature in the 2009 general election but was sworn in during the legislative term. On 28 January 2011, Premier Cassel Mathale announced that she would join the Limpopo Executive Council as MEC for Public Works; she succeeded George Phadagi George Muthundinne Phadagi (26 June 1952 – 13 May 2012), was a member of the African National Congress (ANC),former Member of Parliament, South African struggle stalwart, politician, mayor and former MEC. He served as the first mayor of Thohoya ... in that ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Florence Radzilani
Fulufhelo Florence Radzilani (; born 21 April 1971) is a South African politician who is currently serving as Member of the Executive Council (MEC) for Transport and Community Safety in Limpopo province. She was formerly the executive mayor of Vhembe District Municipality from 2011 to 2012 and from 2016 to 2018. She resigned as mayor in December 2018 after being implicated in the corruption scandal at VBS Mutual Bank. She is a member of the African National Congress (ANC) and has been a member of the Provincial Executive Committees of the African National Congress, ANC Provincial Executive Committee in Limpopo since 2011. In June 2018, she was elected Deputy Provincial Chairperson of the African National Congress, Provincial Chairperson of the ANC in Limpopo. Although the VBS scandal led her to "Step-aside rule, step aside" from this position between December 2018 and September 2020, she was re-elected to a second four-year term in the party office in June 2022. Shortly after h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dipuo Letsatsi-Duba
Dipuo Bertha Letsatsi-Duba (born 25 September 1965) is a South African politician who is currently serving as South African Ambassador to Turkey. She served as Minister of State Security in the first cabinet of President Cyril Ramaphosa from February 2018 to May 2019. Before that, she was Deputy Minister of Public Service and Administration from March 2017 to February 2018. A member of the African National Congress (ANC), Letsatsi-Duba previously served in the Limpopo Provincial Legislature from 2009 to 2014, holding three different portfolios in the Limpopo Executive Council under Premiers Cassel Mathale and Stan Mathabatha. After that, from 2014 to 2019, she served in the National Assembly, where she was chairperson of Parliament's Portfolio Committee on Public Enterprises until President Jacob Zuma appointed her as a deputy minister in 2017. She resigned from the National Assembly in early June 2019 after failing to gain an appointment to Ramaphosa's second-term cabi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacob Marule
Jacob Boy Otto Marule is a South African politician who has represented the African National Congress (ANC) in the Limpopo Provincial Legislature since 2019. During an earlier period of service in the provincial legislature, he was Limpopo's Member of the Executive Council (MEC) for Agriculture from March 2012 until July 2013. A former member of Umkhonto weSizwe (MK), he is active in the ANC Veterans' League. Marule was a member of MK's Luthuli Detachment, which undertook the Wankie Campaign of 1967. While in exile with MK, he met Canadian activist Marie Smallface, whom he married; they had at least one child, a daughter named Tsuaki. Marule was at one point the Deputy Mayor of Chase, Canada. On 13 March 2012, he was appointed to the Limpopo Executive Council by Cassel Mathale, then the Premier of Limpopo, who appointed him MEC for Agriculture. In March 2013, workers in the provincial Department of Agriculture called for his resignation in protests organised by the Nation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pitsi Moloto
Pitsi Paul Moloto is a South African politician and businessman who served in the Limpopo Executive Council from May 2009 to July 2013. Under Premier Cassel Mathale, he served as Limpopo's Member of the Executive Council (MEC) for Economic Development, Environmental Affairs, and Tourism from 2009 to 2012 and as MEC for Roads and Transport from 2012 to 2013. He represented the African National Congress in the Limpopo Provincial Legislature but did not seek re-election in the 2014 general election. Political career Moloto was elected to the Limpopo Provincial Legislature in the 2009 general election, ranked 13th on the ANC's provincial party list. After the election, on 6 May 2009, newly elected Premier Cassel Mathale announced that Moloto would join his Executive Council as MEC for Economic Development, Environmental Affairs, and Tourism. He succeeded Collins Chabane Ohm Collins Chabane (15 April 1960 – 15 March 2015) was a South African Minister of Public Servic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pinky Kekana
Pinky Sharon Kekana (born 14 July 1966) is a South African politician who is currently serving as the Deputy Minister in the Presidency. She was first appointed to the national executive in February 2018 when President Cyril Ramaphosa named her as Deputy Minister of Communications, an office she held until she was appointed to her current position in August 2021. A teacher by training, Kekana was formerly a Member of the Limpopo Provincial Legislature and served in the Limpopo Executive Council from 2009 to 2013 under Premier Cassel Mathale. She was first elected to the National Assembly in 2014. In addition, she was elected to the National Executive Committee of her political party, the African National Congress, in 2017; she was re-elected to a second five-year term in 2022. Early life and career Kekana was born and raised in Bela-Bela in present-day Limpopo province (then part of the Transvaal). After earning a Bachelor of Arts in education, she worked as a seco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
