PHUTI MOSOMANE
FORMER Communications Minister, Dina Pule, who left public office under a cloud of corruption, made a remarkable comeback on Tuesday after being elected ANC’s Chairperson of Organising and Membership Committee.
She will be deputised by former Deputy Minister of Higher Education, Mduduzi Manana.
Pule was fired as Minister of Communications in 2013 after Parliament’s Joint Committee on Ethics found her guilty of abusing her power. This after her partner, Phosane Mngqibisa, allegedly benefitted from an ICT Indaba which was organised by her department back in 2012.
The announcements were made on Tuesday by ANC Secretary-General Fikile Mbalula when he unveiled a list of names of the new committee chairpersons and their deputies, including full-time officials to be deployed at Luthuli House in Johannesburg.
The appointments are part of efforts to firm up Luthuli House following the ANC’s 55th National Conference in December.
Other full-time officials at Luthuli House will include Sibongile Besani as ANC Head of the Presidency, Febe Potgieter as Head of Research, David Makhura as Head of Political Education, and former ANC KwaZulu Natal Provincial Secretary Mdumiseni Ntuli as the party’s Elections Manager.
ANC Deputy President Paul Mashatile has been elected as the Chairperson of the Deployment Committee, while Mbalula, as the party’s Secretary-General, will be responsible for co-ordination of the work of the Deployment Committee.
The committee will be made up of the two Deputy Secretary-Generals, Nomvula Mokonyane, and Maropene Ramokgopa.
Other members of the Deployment Committee include Pemmy Majodina, Gerhard Koornhof, Mondli Gungubele, Thembi Nkadimeng, Sibongile Besani, and various representatives of the ANC Women’s League (ANCWL), ANC Youth League, ANC Veterans League, the South African Communist Party and COSATU.
Reverend Frank Chikane, former Director-General in the Office of former President Thabo Mbeki, is now the head of the ANC’s Integrity Commission. He will be deputised ANC veteran, Sophie de Bruyn.
Other ANC committees’ appointments are as follows:
NATIONAL DISCIPLINARY COMMITTEE
Ralph Mgijima as Chairperson
DRAFTING COMMITTEE
Thoko Didiza as Chairperson, and David Makhura as Deputy.
LEGAL & CONSTUTIONAL AFFAIRS
Cyril Xaba as Chairperson, and Faith Muthambi as Deputy.
INFORMATION, COMMUNICATIONS AND PUBLICITY
Nkenke Kekana as Chairperson, and Mahlengi Bhengu-Motsiri as Deputy.
EDUCATION, HEALTH, SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
Peggy Nkonyeni as Chairperson, and Aaron Motsoaledi as Deputy.
ECONOMIC TRANSFORMATION
Mamoloko Kubayi as Chairperson, and Zuko Godlimpi as Deputy.
INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
Deputy Secretary-General Nomvula Mokonyane as Chairperson, and
Obed Bapela as Deputy.
ELECTIONS & CAMPAIGNS
Deputy Secretary-General Nomvula Mokonyane as Chairperson, and
Barbara Creecy as Deputy.
POLITICAL EDUCATION
Sibongile Besani as Chairperson, and Febe Potgieter as Deputy.
PEACE & STABILITY
Polly Boshielo as Chairperson, and Dickson Masemola as Deputy.
SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION
Zwelini Mkhize as Chairperson, and Sindisiwe Chikunga as Deputy.
LEGISLATURE & GOVERNANCE
Thembi Nkadimeng as Chairperson, and Noxolo Kiviet as Deputy.
LOCAL GOVERNMENT INTERVENTION TEAM
Parks Tau as Chairperson, and Stella Ndabeni-Abrahams as Deputy.
GENDER & EQUITY
Angie Motshekga as Chairperson, and Ronald Lamola as Deputy.
POLICY, MONITORING & EVALUATION
Deputy Secretary-General Maropene Ramakgopa as Chairperson, and Joe Maswanganyi as Deputy.
FINANCE
Treasurer-General Gwen Ramokgopa
NATIONAL DISPUTE RESOLUTION COMMITTEE
Mduduzi Manana as Chairperson, and Soviet Lekganyane as Deputy
NATIONAL DISPUTE RESOLUTION COMMITTEE OF APPEAL
Thandi Modise as Chairperson.
ELECTORAL COMMITTEE
Kgalema Motlanthe as Chairperson, and Nkele Ntingane as Deputy.
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