Ngoako Ramatlhodi | |
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1st Premier of Limpopo | |
In office 10 May 1994 –22 April 2004 | |
Deputy Minister of Correctional Services | |
In office 1 November 2010 –25 May 2014 | |
President | Jacob Zuma |
Minister of Mineral Resources | |
In office 25 May 2014 –23 September 2015 | |
President | Jacob Zuma |
Minister of Public Service and Administration | |
In office 23 September 2015 –31 March 2017 | |
President | Jacob Zuma |
Deputy | Godfrey Oliphant |
Preceded by | Susan Shabangu |
Succeeded by | Mosebenzi Zwane |
Personal details | |
Born | Northern Transvaal,South Africa | 21 August 1955
Political party | African National Congress |
Ngoako Ramatlhodi (born 21 August 1955),a senior member of the African National Congress,was South Africa's Minister of Public Service and Administration from 2015 [1] [2] to March 2017. In the first Zuma administration he had been an MP and a controversial member of the Judicial Service Commission. He resigned as MP in 2017. [3]
Up to 2015 he was Minister of Mineral Resources. Ramatlhodi claimed in 2017 that Eskom chairperson Ben Ngubane and chief executive Brian Molefe requested that he terminate Glencor's mining licenses in an apparent ruse to facilitate the sale of its Optimum coal mine to the Gupta family. [3] [4] He was assigned to his subsequent ministerial post after he supposedly did not comply.
He was axed in the cabinet reshuffle of March 2017,allegedly without being given reasons. [5] His position was taken by a known Zuma ally,the then Free State economic development MEC Mosebenzi Zwane. In the same reshuffle,finance minister Pravin Gordhan and his deputy,Mcebisi Jonas,were also replaced. He was appointed Prime Minister of the Bapedi Nation in December 2024 by Her Majesty Queen Manyaku "Hlapogadi 'a Phaahle" Leganabatho II Thulare. He is the first person to hold the office aimed at improving relations between government and the royal house and nation.
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