Nomvula Mokonyane Biography
Nomvula Mokonyane is a South African politician, former Premier of Gauteng Province and the Minister of Communications since 2018. She previously served as Minister in the Department of Water and Sanitation of South Africa from May 25, 2014, to January 2018.
Nomvula Mokonyane Age
Nomvula Paula Mokonyane was born on 28th June 1963 in Kagiso, South Africa. her birth sign is Cancer. She celebrates her birthday on June 28 every year.
Nomvula Mokonyane Parents
Nomvula’s has not revealed to the public about her parents, her father and mother are well hidden from the public eye.there is little info about her family all that she has disclosed is that the youngest in a family of 12, with six sisters and five brothers.
Nomvula Mokonyane Education| Nomvula Mokonyane Qualifications
Nomvula Mokonyane matriculated at Masupatsela High School, Kagiso.
She Received training in Local Government, Planning Management, and Community Development in Sweden.
She completed a Certificate Course in Emerging Economics from Wharton Business School at Pensylvania University.
She has a Certificate in Economics and Finance from Harvard Business School
and a leadership and governance certificate.
She also has a Certificate in Project Planning.
Nomvula Mokonyane Contact Details
EMAIL: nene@doc.gov.za
PHONE: 082 937 1598, 012 473 0442
Nomvula Mokonyane Net Worth
As of now, Nomvula Mokonyane net worth is under review according to Forbes. She has amassed her wealth from her political career and other business ventures over the years. Nomvula’s monthly earnings are also not revealed to the public.
It’s evident that the politician makes a good sum of money considering her luxurious way of life she also owns properties and cars under her name.
Nomvula Mokonyane Height/ weight
Nomvula height has not been publicized yet, including her body weight. She recently made headlines on account of her attempt to lose weight.A report in Sunday Sun today alleges that Minister of Environmental Affairs Nomvula Mokonyane has not been able to recover as quickly as she would have liked from a liposuction procedure performed “about a month ago”.
She should have been “rocking her summer body” already, according to one insider they said they spoke to. The minister has been on sick leave at home in Johannesburg, “keeping a low profile”, with her supposed plans to hit the beach with friends now allegedly on hold.
According to the publication, the minister has attempted to keep the news secret, with her spokesperson only being willing to confirm she is on leave, and it was granted by the president, without saying why.
Nomvula Mokonyane Ben 10
Sources claim former Gauteng premier Nomvula Mokonyane has found herself a thirst-quenching younger man: Luvo Makasi. They claim he helps her in the office.Insiders in her ministry also allege that Mokonyane was close to certain young men, but dumped them when her alleged personal relationship with Luvo began to heat up.
One insider goes so far as to claim that the minister jumps when Luvo calls. “She’ll stop everything to go and attend to him. He’s the boss both in and out of the office,” the source allegedHowever, the two came out and denied the allegations. Mokonyane told Sowetan LIVE that although she was hurt by the recent allegations, it would not deter her from doing her job.
“It does hurt. I’m human, I’m a mother, I’m a wife, I’m somebody else’s child. But I have opted to sacrifice my entire life serving the people of South Africa until today.”
Mokonyane added that she understands that when ‘someone cannot come for you politically, they will come for you personally’.“I know that for you to get at a woman you must throw something about sleeping, I don’t know how many he (Julius Malema) has said I slept with, the list is long. But it’s okay, I’ll pay this price as long as I’m determined to serve the people of South Africa,” she said.
Nomvula Mokonyane Delivery sanitary Pads
Minister of Environmental Affairs Nomvula Mokonyane received criticism on social media on Wednesday after pictures of her with Grade R pupils at Mandosi Combined school circulated.
In the pictures, the minister seemed to be talking to the pupils while holding a packet of sanitary towels, as if she was addressing the pupils before giving them pads. The pictures divided social media users, with some questioning how she could give five to eight-year-old kids sanitary towels, while some said some kids start their period at that age.
But the minister defended herself and said the school had older pupils who she gave the sanitary towels to, it just happened that the picture which was circulating on social media was of her with Grade R pupils.
Nomvula Mokonyane On Bosasa
Former Bosasa Operations’ chief operations officer, Angelo Agrizzi, Jan 21019, told the Zondo Commission of Inquiry that Environmental Affairs Minister, Nomvula Mokonyane, was on an R50 000 monthly retainer, among other benefits she enjoyed from Bosasa.
According to Agrizzi, the alleged R50 000 monthly bribe to Mokonyane took place from the period 2002 until Agrizzi left Bosasa in 2016. But Agrizzi said that Bosasa had not derived any tangible benefit from its relationship with Mokonyane other than perceived political protection.
Mokonyane was initially a shareholder and director of Dyambu Holdings, Bosasa’s parent company. Agrizzi said that Bosasa’s relationship with Mokonyane dates back to around 2002 when she was still the Gauteng member of the executive council (MEC) for safety and security.
During that time, Agrizzi said Bosasa chief executive Gavin Watson requested him to see to it that Mokonyane was given various gifts and that numerous events were organized and paid for by Bosasa at her request.
The gifts to Mokonyane included maintenance and security upgrades at Mokonyane’s house in Roodepoort, a massive annual Christmas grocery list, paying for funeral expenses for her deceased family members, catering for several African National Congress (ANC) rallies on her instruction; including providing catering at former President Jacob Zuma’s 72nd birthday party.
Agrizzi said that Mokonyane would visit Bosasa offices frequently and at one stage around 2008 or 2009, she asked that Bosasa do a full analysis of security at provincial hospitals.
Nomvula Mokonyane Politician
Her political career began in the early 1980s as a student activist. She was a founder member of the Congress of South African Students (Cosas) and a member of the Young Christian Students (YCS).
She was the publicity secretary of the Krugersdorp branch of the United Democratic Front and an organizer of the Federation of Transvaal Women (Fedtaw), an organization that supported the families of detainees and the youth in their fight for democratic student representative councils.
In 1990 after the unbanning of political organizations she was involved in the re-establishment of the ANC and SACP structures. As from 1994, she served in the Gauteng Legislature in various portfolio committees before she was appointed MEC of Agriculture, Conservation and Environment in 1996.
In 1999 she became the MEC for Safety and Liason until 2004 when she has appointed Housing MEC a position she held until 2009. She is a member of the National Executive Committee (NEC) of the African National Congress elected at the 52nd national conference in 2007 in Polokwane.
On May 6, 2009, she was sworn in as Premier of Gauteng becoming the first female premier.
On May 25, 2014, she was appointed Minister of Water Affairs and Sanitation, a new Ministry created to combat water issues and serious sanitation problems across the country.
On November 22, 2018, she was appointed Minister of Environmental Affairs, a Ministry that was previously held by the late Edna Molwena.
Nomvula Mokonyane Membership
♦ 1994- 1994: National Co-ordinator for the ANCWL
♦ 1996- 1999: Member of the Gauteng Executive Council for Agriculture,
Conservation and Environment
♦ 1999- 2004: Member of the Gauteng Executive Council for Safety and Liaison.
♦ 2004- 2009: Member of the Gauteng Executive Council MEC for Housing
How Mokonyane paved the way for a consulting firm to earn billions
Documents show former water minister Nomvula Mokonyane’s hidden hand in the direct appointment of LTE Consulting Engineers to deliver the controversial R2.7bn Giyani water project in Limpopo.
City Press can now confirm that although LTE was appointed without a public tender by Lepelle Northern Water, the appointment was made at the insistence of Mokonyane’s then water and sanitation department.
This information is contained in two affidavits by the water utility’s chief executive Phineas Legodi and planning manager Carel Schmahl, which were deposed to the Special Investigating Unit (SIU) last year.
After a City Press investigation into the deal, former president Jacob Zuma issued a proclamation in 2016, giving the SIU the task of investigating how LTE, a small firm of consulting engineers, received multibillion-rand tenders from Lepelle, as well as Gauteng’s department of human settlements, of which Mokonyane was MEC at the time it scored another lucrative contract.
About six months before netting the Giyani contract, LTE secured R200m water and sewer reticulation contract it hadn’t tendered for in Sweetwaters, south of Johannesburg. In his affidavit, Schmahl told SIU investigators: “Based on the order of magnitude and speed at which the work must be done, DWS [the department of water and sanitation] recommended the use of one of their large term contract service providers namely LTE Consulting to do the work.”
However, he did not say who exactly recommended LTE. Schmahl also alleged that LTE attended a steering committee meeting established to find solutions to Giyani’s water crisis at the department’s invitation. The meeting took place on August 15, 2014, a day after Mokonyane held an imbizo in Giyani at which she announced she was appointing Lepelle Northern Water to implement the project on an emergency basis, which would allow them to deviate from procurement policies.
In his affidavit, Legodi confirms this. Three senior civil servants in the department told City Press that LTE boss Thulani Majola also attended Mokonyane’s Giyani imbizo and “it was a foregone conclusion” the job was his.“One could call it a recommendation, but it is not like Nomvula recommended LTE to Lepelle.“They simply had no choice; she shoved LTE down Lepelle’s throat,” said one.
SIU documents seen by City Press show that:- Investigators have requested the state attorney to institute an R2.2bn lawsuit but it doesn’t say against who;- The unit “identified serious irregularities in the awarding of the tender to LTE and this might lead to the recovery of a substantial amount through the civil action”; and
Evidence is being considered for possible disciplinary cases against department officials and possible criminal referrals against those who contravened the Public Finance Management Act.The documents say the SIU will complete its investigation into the Giyani water project at the end of the month and forward a report to President Cyril Ramaphosa.
The SIU declined to comment. However, the document is silent on the role Mokonyane played in Lepelle’s appointment of LTE, the company’s R200m Sweetwaters tender and the circumstances in which it bagged both projects. Mokonyane, now communications minister, referred all queries to the water and sanitation department and Lepelle.
Majola’s lawyer Victor Nkhwashu said: “Our instructions are that our client is an interested party in the said investigation by the SIU.“Accordingly, and in the interest of the investigation by the SIU, our client will comment only after having had sight into the preliminary report and only when it is presented to him for comments by the SIU.”
Meanwhile, a war is brewing between Legodi and the SIU. Legodi is challenging the unit’s preliminary findings and threatened them with legal action. In a letter through his lawyers, Legodi argues it was irrational for the SIU to suggest he irregularly awarded the tender to LTE when he gave them documents proving that Mokonyane directed him to do so on an emergency basis.
Legodi also refused to comment. Another department official, who has seen the SIU’s documents, said: “It really looks like the SIU is using the low-hanging fruit as scapegoats.“We all know that Legodi implemented instructions from Pretoria.”
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