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The Executive Council of the Eastern Cape is the cabinet of the executive branch of the provincial government in the South African province of the Eastern Cape.The Members of the Executive Council (MECs) are appointed from among the members of the Eastern Cape Provincial Legislature by the Premier of the Eastern Cape, an office held since the 2019 general election by Oscar Mabuyane of the ...
The Eastern Cape province of South Africa is governed in a parliamentary system in which the people elect the provincial legislature and the legislature, in turn, elects the Premier as head of the executive. The Premier leads an Executive Council consisting of members who oversee various executive departments.
In terms of the constitution, the executive authority of a province is entrusted in the premier. The premier appoints an Executive Council consisting of ten members of the provincial legislature; they are called members of the Executive Council (MECs). The MECs are primarily ministers and the Executive Council a cabinet at the provincial level ...
Ntandokazi Yolisa Capa (born 10 March 1977) is a South African politician who has been the Member of the Eastern Cape Executive Council for Health since 2024. A member of the African National Congress, she was elected to the Eastern Cape Provincial Legislature in the 2024 provincial election.
In South Africa, the Executive Council of a province is the cabinet of the provincial government. [1] The Executive Council consists of the Premier and five to ten other members, [2] who have the title "Member of the Executive Council", commonly abbreviated to "MEC". [1] MECs are appointed by the Premier from amongst the members of the ...
The premier then selects the members of his Executive Council (cabinet) from among his fellow MPLs; they are assigned to the different departments in the government, even though the departments' day-to-day business is run by the Heads of the Department (HOD), who are also appointed by the premier. [1]
This is a list of members of the sixth Eastern Cape Provincial Legislature as elected in the election of 8 May 2019 and taking into account changes in membership since the election. [1] Pursuant to the 2019 election, the African National Congress (ANC) retained its comfortable majority in the legislature, winning 44 of 63 seats.
The Eastern Cape Provincial Legislature elects the Premier of the Eastern Cape and can force the Premier to resign by passing a motion of no confidence.Even though the Executive Council of the province is appointed by the Premier, the legislature can pass a motion of no confidence forcing the Premier to reconfigure the Council.