Motshidisi Koloi

Motshidisi Agnes Koloi, also spelled Motshidise, is a South African politician and educator who is currently serving as the Member of the Executive Council (MEC) for Social Development in the Free State provincial government. Before that, she was MEC for Public Works and Human Settlements. She has served in the Free State Provincial Legislature as an ANC representative since May 2019. Prior to her election to the Provincial Legislature, Koloi had served as the executive mayor of the Moqhaka Local Municipality.

Motshidisi Koloi
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Koloi in 2022
Member of the Executive Council of the Free State for Social Development
Assumed office
14 March 2023
PremierMxolisi Dukwana
Preceded byMamiki Qabathe
Member of the Free State Executive Council for Public Works and Human Settlements
In office
28 May 2019 – 14 March 2023
PremierSisi Ntombela
Preceded byDora Kotzee
Succeeded byDibolelo Mahlatsi
Member of the Free State Provincial Legislature
Assumed office
22 May 2019
Personal details
Political partyAfrican National Congress
ProfessionPolitician

Background

Koloi holds a primary teacher's diploma and a diploma in education management. She proceeded to work as an educator before becoming active in politics. Koloi was a councillor for the African National Congress on the municipal council of the Moqhaka Local Municipality. She gradually rose in the municipal leadership ranks, going from part-time councillor to chief whip of the council before becoming the executive mayor of the municipality.[1] As mayor of Moqhaka, she was elected as one of three deputy provincial chairpersons of the South African Local Government Association in November 2016.[2]

Provincial government

Koloi was elected to the Free State Provincial Legislature in the 2019 general election as one of 19 ANC representatives. Shortly afterwards, re-elected premier Sisi Ntombela announced her new executive council for the sixth administration wherein Koloi was appointed as the Member of the Executive Council for Public Works and Human Settlements, succeeding Dorah Kotzee, who left the provincial legislature.[3][4]

In May 2021, Koloi was appointed to serve on the Interim Provincial Executive Committee of the ANC after the 2018 Free State ANC provincial elective conference where the previous PEC was elected, was declared unlawful by the Supreme Court of Appeal.[5]

Following Mxolisi Dukwana's election as Premier of the Free State, he moved Koloi to the Social Development portfolio of the executive council.[6]

References
  1. "Profile of the MEC". Free State Department of Public Works. Retrieved 9 January 2023.
  2. "FS Salga elects new PEC". OFM. Retrieved 2023-01-09.
  3. "Opposition concerned over lack of experience, size of #FScabinet". OFM. Retrieved 2023-01-09.
  4. "ANC youth leader in FS appointed as MEC; tasked with unemployment". OFM. Retrieved 2023-01-09.
  5. Thale, Neo (2021-05-25). "Magashule's nemesis Dukwana named as Free State ANC convenor". The Citizen. Retrieved 2023-01-09.
  6. OFM. "Dukwana's Exco: Out with the old, in with the new". OFM. Retrieved 2023-03-14.
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