Chupu Mathabatha re-appointed as Limpopo Premier
Chupu Stanley Mathabatha took the office of Premier of Limpopo on 18 July 2013 and has been the Provincial Chairperson of the African National Congress (ANC) in Limpopo since February 2014.
POLOKWANE – Limpopo Premier Chupu Mathabatha was re-elected as premier of the province following a Special National Executive (NEC) meeting on Monday (13 May) to discuss the nomination of Premier Candidates for the provinces.
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Provincial offices of the ANC recommended three names per province for the position of Premier to the NEC. The names submitted were those of MECs Nnandi Ndalane and Rob Tooley as well as Mathabatha’s. He will be sworn in in the Legislature after new members of the sixth Legislature was sworn in on 22 May.
Chupu Stanley Mathabatha took the office of Premier of Limpopo on 18 July 2013 and has been the Provincial Chairperson of the African National Congress (ANC) in Limpopo since February 2014.
He obtained a BA Degree from the University of the Western Cape and a Masters Degree in Development (MDev) from the Graduate School of Leadership, University of Limpopo. He obtained an Executive Management Development Programme at Harvard University (USA) in 2003.
THANK YOU LIMPOPO
PICTURES: the Thank You mini-rally outside Frans Mohlala House in Polokwane pic.twitter.com/zB9si6dQch— ANCLimpopo (@ANCLimpopo) May 14, 2019
He joined politics at a tender age and became a member of the ANC liberation army, Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) in 1977 at the age of 20, after the Soweto 1976 Uprising and the same year Peter Mokaba was detained under the then Terrorism Act. In the 80’s, Mathabatha rose to become a prominent leader of the then United Democratic Front (UDF) and later he was part of the youth detachment known as the Young Lions of the North. After the unbanning of political parties in 1990, Mathabatha became one of the key activists to rebuild the structure of the ANC internally and the Treasurer of the Northern Transvaal Region of the ANC in 1992.
Post 1994, Mathabatha played a pivotal role in the consolidation and transformation of the then Bantustans administrations of Lebowa, Venda and Gazankulu and the Transvaal Provincial Administration (TPA) into the Northern Province Provincial Administration and later Limpopo.
“We are nothing but the foot-soldiers of the movement, our defined task is to work for the growth of the country and through efforts to build the economy and to create the much-needed jobs for the people of Limpopo”
– Premier Candidate Comrade Chupu Stanley Mathabatha pic.twitter.com/B9PaL2VNw9— ANCLimpopo (@ANCLimpopo) May 14, 2019
Prior to his appointment as Chief Operations Officer of LimDev in March 2003, Mathabatha was the General Manager of the SMME Directorate in the Provincial Department of Finance and Economic Development in Limpopo and has also worked as the technical advisor to the then MEC of Finance and Economic Development in 1994. He was appointed the Managing Director of LimDev in 2005 to 2010 and then become an Ambassador Extraordinary and Pleanipotentiary of the RSA in Ukraine (non-resident Ambassador in Armenia, Georgia, Moldova) in 2012.
Read more about his re-appointment in this week’s Review.