STELLALANDER-VRYBURG: The Judge President of the Mahikeng High Court, Judge Ronald Deon Hendricks presided over the first Legislature House Sitting on Friday, 14 June wherein Members of the Provincial Legislature were sworn-in and Hon.
Desbo Mohono was elected as the new Speaker of the Legislature. Hon.
Kagiso Lazarus Mokgosi was elected as the new Premier of the North West Province where else, Hon. Tshepo George Khoza was also elected as the new Deputy Speaker; Hon. Motlalepula Rosho as the Chief Whip of the House and Hon. Tebogo Modise as Chairperson of Chairpersons of Committees. All Presiding Officers were nominated and elected unopposed. The nomination and election of the Speaker; Deputy Speaker; Chief Whip of the House and Premier was conducted in terms of Section 107 read with Section 111(1), Section 128(2) and Section 129 of the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa. The House Sitting also nominated the Permanent Delegates to the National Council of Provinces and voted for the new Chairperson of the NCOP. Political parties represented in the Legislature include African National Congress (23 MPLs), Economic Freedom Fighters (7 MPLs), Democratic Alliance (5 MPLs), Umkhonto weSizwe Party (1 MPL), Action SA (1 MPL) and Freedom Front Plus (1 MPL). A DA-Councilor from Naledi Municipality, Vryburg, Hendriëtte van Huyssteen, was sworn in as a member of the North West Provincial Legislature for the next five years.
