Photo: Premier Chupu Stanley Mathabatha with newly appointed MECs for Sport, Arts and Culture Nakedi Sibanda-Kekana, LEDET Rodgers Monama and Judge President Makgoba.
The restructuring of the Limpopo Provincial Executive Council by Premier Chupu Mathabatha on Thursday resulted in changes in the Provincial Legislature and National Council of Provinces (NCOP).
Jeremiah Ndou is relieved from his duties of deputy speaker of the Limpopo Legislature and redeployed to the NCOP with former MEC of Social Development Namane Masemola.
Tshitereke Matibe relinquished his position as the chairperson of the Portfolio Committee on Health, to assume the position of deputy speaker of the Limpopo Provincial Legislature.
The redeployment of Matibe and Rodgers Monama to Office of the Speaker and Department of Economic Development, Environment and Tourism respectively created vacancies in the Portfolio Committee of Health and the Standing Committee on Public Accounts (SCOPA), which have to be filled shortly.
According to the media statement issued by the ANC party caucus, the deposed MECs Boshielo and Moraka, Transport and Sport respectively, may be considered for the new vacancies in the legislature committees.
Two Limpopo permanent delegates to the NCOP Tebogo Mamorobela and Lilliet Mamaregane are recalled to the Limpopo Legislature to make way for Masemola and Ndou. The ANC caucus in the Legislature said in a statement that Mamorobela and Mamaragena will be a ‘shot in the arm’, because of their enormous exposure to the highest level of governance – the National Council of Provinces.
Caucus also congratulated Rodgers Monama, Naledi Kekana-Sibanda and Florence Radzilani on their new assignments as Members of the Executive Council.
MEC for Corporate Governance, Human Settlements and Traditional Affairs (COGHSTA) Basikopo thanked Premier Mathabatha for retaining him in his current position, during the handover ceremony of the state of the new offices to the Dikgale Traditional Council in Polokwane.
Meanwhile the newly elected Premier of the Gauteng Province Panyaza Lesufi was due to announce Members of the Executive Council.