Dr Zamani Saul

Dr Zamani Saul is the current Premier of the Northern Cape. He has also been serving as the Provincial Chairperson of the African National Congress.

Dr Saul got involved in political activism at the age of 14 with the Petrusville Youth Congress and later with the Petrusville Civic Movement. As COSAS leader in the late 1980s and early 1990s, he represented COSAS in the National Education Coordinating Committee (NECC).

In 1992, he was trained and employed as a para-legal by Pretrusville Advice Centre, specialising in protecting farm workers against illegal farm evictions. During the same period, he was elected as the first branch secretary in Petrusville after the unbanning.

He served in the SACP Provincial Ideology Committee from 1994 - 1995 and simultaneously served as the chairperson of the UWC SACP branch. He served in the Pixley ka Seme REC and the Regional Working Committee. He was elected head of political education. In 2004, he was elected as the ANC Deputy Provincial Secretary, and in 2008, the ANC Provincial Secretary. He has cumulatively served as a PEC member for an uninterrupted period of 21 years.

Source: Norther Cape Provincial Legislature