{"id":777328,"date":"2024-06-16T16:59:00","date_gmt":"2024-06-16T14:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=777328"},"modified":"2024-06-16T20:29:27","modified_gmt":"2024-06-16T18:29:27","slug":"these-are-all-of-the-newly-elected-provincial-premiers-in-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/777328\/these-are-all-of-the-newly-elected-provincial-premiers-in-south-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"These are all of the newly-elected provincial Premiers in South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

South Africa’s nine provincial Premiers for the seventh administration were voted in by newly-inducted provincial legislature representatives between the 13th and 14th of June.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the May 29th elections, six out of nine provinces had a party that received an outright majority. This meant their Premier candidates could take the lead in the provincial executive quite easily. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, the appointments in Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal, and to a lesser extent in the Northern Cape, were the result of rigorous inter-party horse-trading given the hung legislatures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Gauteng: Panyaza Lesufi (ANC)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n

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Gauteng Premier Panyaza Lesufi. Photo: GCIS<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

African National Congress (ANC) Gauteng chairperson Panyaza Lesufi was re-elected as Premier of South Africa’s economic hub unopposed at the legislature\u2019s first sitting on 14 June, 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Given that the ANC were unable to secure a majority in the province in the May 29th elections (34.76% of the provincial vote giving them 28\/80 seats in the legislature), Lesufi\u2019s appointment to head the province’s seventh administration was through the backing of partners set to form part of the Government of National Unity (GNU).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This was seen by the Democratic Alliance’s (DA’s) Mike Moriarty seconding his Premiership nomination.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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