She was the Member of the Free State Executive Council for Finance during the premierships of Ace Magashule and Sisi Ntombela.

On 12 March 2013, premier Ace Magashule appointed her as the Member of the Executive Council for Finance, succeeding Seiso Mohai, who was redeployed to Parliament.

The newly elected premier Maqueen Letsoha-Mathae appointed her as the MEC for Agriculture, Rural Development and Environmental Affairs.

The project was managed by the Gupta-owned Estina company, which led to more than R220 million in public funds, which were meant for the dairy, being siphoned towards the Gupta family and only 1% spent on actual farming, as reported by the City Press.

[9] Newspaper reports later suggested that the R30 million was used to pay for the 2013 wedding of Vega Gupta at the Sun City resort in the North West Province.

[14] Also in her testimony, Rockman mentioned that the provincial government had gone into an agreement with the now-defunct Gupta-owned The New Age to buy around 4,000 copies of the paper daily.