The Mpumalanga African National Congress (ANC) Chairperson, Mandla Ndlovu has been appointed as the Co-operative Governance and Traditional Affairs (COGTA) MEC.
Premier Refilwe Mtsweni-Tsipane announced the Cabinet changes on Tuesday where she also moved Busi Shiba to the agriculture portfolio. Shiba wil take over the department full-time after former MEC Mandla Msibi was fired from the position last year after he was charged with murder.
In announcing the changes in her provincial Cabinet, Mtsweni-Tsipane said she had worked with Ndlovu in the past.
“Having worked extensively with Mr Ndlovu over the last couple of years, I am certain that his familiarity with the wide array of challenges we face in the local sphere of government as well as his natural ability to be analytical and solution-orientated will aid our efforts to operate in a co-ordinated and integrated manner with the local sphere of government,” said Mtsweni-Tsipane.
Ndlovu is a trained teacher. He worked as a councillor in the Bushbuckridge Local Municipality and thereafter became ANC secretary of the erstwhile Bohlabelo region. He was the elected provincial ANC secretary when Deputy President David Mabuza served his last term as premier. He acted as provincial chairperson when Mabuza was elected into national office in 2018, until Mpumalanga convened its conference last month.
