Northern Cape Premier Hazel Jenkins on Monday announced a new provincial executive committee.
Jenkins was also sworn in as premier during a ceremony at the provincial legislature in Kimberley.
She said she wanted to see the vast province wake up from its ”apparent slumber” to modernise and become more confident of its future.
The new Northern Cape provincial ministers are: Norman Shushu, agriculture, land reform and rural development ; Kenny Mmoiemang, minister for cooperative governance, human settlement and traditional affairs; Grizelda Cjikela, education minister; Sylvia Lucas, environment and nature conservation minister; John Block, minister for finance, economic affairs and tourism; Mxolisi Sokatsha, health minister; Dawid Rooi, minister for roads and public works; Alvin Botes, minister for social services and population; Pauline Williams, minister for sport, arts and culture and Patrick Mabilo, transport, safety and culture provincial minister.
Block, the African National Congress chairperson in the province, and Rooi were both former provincial ministers, but did not form part of former premier Dipuo Peters’s last executive council.
Jenkins said the new leadership had a clear and achievable plan for the next five years to further improve the quality of life of the province’s people. She said the new administration would focus on employment creation in a growing economy, health, education, rural development, land reform as well as crime.
”This plan will only produce the desired results if all South Africans get involved in implementing it.”
Jenkins said residents would see ”new vigour” from her executive. — Sapa