Former minister Tina Joemat-Pettersson has died

Former cabinet Minister, Tina Joemat-Pettersson has passed away. Joemat-Pettersson was currently serving as a Member of Parliament and the Chairperson of the Portfolio Committee on Police. The former Minister of Energy, from 2014 until 2017, and Minister of agriculture, forestry, and fisheries, from 2009 to 2014, was 59-years-old.

Joemat-Pettersson was an active member of the Azanian Students Organisation between 1985 and 1986.
Joemat-Pettersson cut her teeth into politics at a young age and also served as a labour activist. She later went on to serve as the MEC of Education in the Northern Cape province and later the MEC of Agriculture until 2009. The 59-year-old also served as an ANC NEC member and was elected to the party’s National Working Committee in 2018. In that very year, she was then elected chairperson of the Portfolio Committee on Police in parliament.

In 2021, she became a member of the Ad-hoc Committee on the Section 194 Enquiry, which will determine if the suspended Public Protector, advocate Busisiswe Mkhwebane is fit to hold office.

Last year at her party’s elective conference, she contested the position of deputy Secretary General and lost out to Nomvula Mokonyane by a thin margin. –Additional reporting Zoleka Qodashe

Source: SABC

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