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Mpumalanga News

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Mpumalanga Premier Mandla Ndlovu has reconfigured his cabinet just two months in office.

Culture, Sport and Recreation MEC Fidel Mlombo has been removed.Ndlovu reshuffled his executive in accordance with the ANC’s resolution that provincial governments should have more women MECs where the premier is a male.

“So, there is a decision that was taken by the ANC that where a male premier is appointed, we should appoint total numbers of MECs are 10, we should appoint females, so we appointed five. So, we were reminded by the ANC to implement the decision taken by the party which was not rescinded, we were implementing that decision of the ANC,” says Ndlovu.

Premier Ndlovu concedes that it was not easy to arrive at this decision, but he had to tow the party line. Mabuza, a former eMalahleni Mayor, is confident that he will make a meaningful contribution in her new role. “The Premier has already tabled the budget, looking at the unemployment rate, the participation in the province, especially to young people. I want to believe there is opportunity so that we can engage our young people and the women in this province.” Any cookies that may not be particularly necessary for the website to function and is used specifically to collect user personal data via analytics, ads, other embedded contents are termed as non-necessary cookies.

 

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