About me
Ms Pemmy Majodina was appointed as Minister of Water and Sanitation from 3 July 2024.She was a member of the National Council of Provinces from 2002 until 2004. Before shebecame a Member of Parliament in 2019, she served as a member of the Eastern Cape Provincial Legislature from 2004 to 2019. She was appointed as Eastern Cape Member of theExecutive Council (MEC) for Health from 2004 to 2008; MEC for Roads and Public Works from2009 to 2010; MEC for Social Development and Special Programmes from 2010 to 2014; MECfor Sport, Recreation, Arts and Culture from 2014 to 2018, and MEC for Public Works from2018 to 2019. Ms Majodina served in various political roles, including in regional, provincial and national executives of the South African Students Congress, African National Congress(ANC) Youth League, ANC Women’s League and South African Communist Party. She is aformer member of Umkhonto we Sizwe, the ANC’s defunct military wing, and is an educator by profession. In 2010, she received an Honorary Doctorate in Community Developmentfrom the Arlington University of Australia.