Her dismissal from the Executive Council, effected by Premier Maureen Modiselle, was highly unpopular with both the SACP and the Congress of South African Trade Unions and therefore severely undermined the ANC's relations with its Tripartite Alliance partners in the North West.
[2][3] Her appointment was viewed as reflective of an intentional strategy to strengthen the Tripartite Alliance by including representatives of the SACP in the provincial executive.
[5] The press statement noted that Pampiri-Bothman was the second North West MEC to be fired outright since the end of apartheid in 1994 (the other was Mmamokwena Gaoretelelwe).
[1] The provincial COSATU leadership, for example, claimed that Pampiri-Bothman had sought to investigate alleged corruption during the 2010 FIFA World Cup.
[1] After she was dismissed from the Executive Council, Pampiri-Bothman resigned from the North West Provincial Legislature, and on 2 November 2010 she was sworn into an ANC seat in the National Assembly, the lower house of the South African Parliament, where she filled a casual vacancy.