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The Provincial Legislature, along with the other provincial legislatures of South Africa, exists by virtue of Chapter 6 of the Constitution of South Africa. It is unicameral, and consists of 30 members elected by a system of party-list proportional representation. The 7th Provincial Legislature was elected on 29 May 2024 in South Africa's 2024 ...
Since 2018, Refilwe Mtsweni-Tsipane, a member of the African National Congress, has held the office of the premier of Mpumalanga. [2] The premier appoints ten members of the Mpumalanga Provincial Legislature to be on the Executive Council. [3]
When the legislature convened for its first session on 26 April 2004, the ANC's Thabang Makwetla was elected as the third Premier of Mpumalanga. [2] He opened his term with a major reshuffle of the Mpumalanga Executive Council. [3] Pinky Phosa was elected as Speaker of the Mpumalanga Provincial Legislature, with Boy Nobunga as her deputy. [4]
Mpumalanga currently elects 15 of the 400 members of the National Assembly using the closed party-list proportional representation electoral system. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Constituency seats are allocated using the largest remainder method with a Droop quota .
The Executive Council of Mpumalanga is the cabinet of the executive branch of the provincial government in the South African province of Mpumalanga.The Members of the Executive Council (MECs) are appointed from among the members of the Mpumalanga Provincial Legislature by the Premier of Mpumalanga, an office held since June 2024 by Mandla Ndlovu.
The new National Council of Provinces (NCOP) will be elected at the first sitting of each provincial legislature. Support for the ruling African National Congress (ANC) significantly declined in this election; the ANC remained the largest party but lost the parliamentary majority that it had held since the inaugural post-apartheid election in 1994.
This is a list of members of the fifth Mpumalanga Provincial Legislature, as elected in the election of 7 May 2014.The African National Congress (ANC) retained a comfortable majority of 24 seats in the legislature but, for the first time since the legislature was established in 1994, its majority was diminished from the previous legislative session.
Each province has a unicameral provincial legislature, varying in size from 30 to 80 members depending on the population of the province. The members of the provincial legislature are elected by party-list proportional representation for a usual term of five years, although under certain circumstances the legislature may be dissolved before its term expires.