Formerly: Gauteng Provincial Legislature
Kgosientsho Ramokgopa, born 25 January 1975, is the Minister of Electricity. He was the Mayor of Tshwane from 2010 to 2016. He was also a Member of the Executive Council in the Gauteng provincial government in 2019.
A civil engineer by training, Ramokgopa entered formal politics as a ward councillor for the African National Congress (ANC) in Tshwane between 2000 and 2005. After several years running public and private entities, he returned to politics in November 2010 when he was elected Mayor of Tshwane. By that time he was also the Regional Chairperson of the ANC's branch in Tshwane, a position he held until 2018.
Pursuant to the 2019 general election, Ramokgopa served a brief stint in the Gauteng Provincial Legislature and as MEC for Economic Development, Agriculture, and Environment under Premier David Makhura. He was MEC for only four-and-a-half months, between May and October 2019. Shortly after Ramokgopa resigned from the provincial government, President Cyril Ramaphosa appointed him to head the investment and infrastructure unit in the Presidency. In addition, Ramokgopa was a member of the Provincial Executive Committee of the Gauteng ANC until July 2022, and in December 2022 he was elected to a five-year term on the party's National Executive Committee.
African National Congress (ANC)
Not associated with any constituency offices
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Minister in the Presidency at National Executive (Executive)
since 7th March 2023
Member at African National Congress (ANC) (Party)
Constituency Head at ANC Constituency Office (105): Ipelegeng/Dube (Constituency Office)
from 2022 until 6th March 2023
Member at Gauteng Provincial Legislature (Provincial-Legislature)
from 22nd May 2019 until 25th February 2020
Member of the Executive Committee: Agriculture and Rural Development at Economic Development, Environment, Agriculture & Rural Development-gau (Gauteng Provincial Legislature Committee)
until 25th February 2020
10th Candidate at African National Congress Provincial Gauteng Election List 2019 (Election List)
from 23rd April 2019 until 8th May 2019
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