Ontlametse Regina Mochware (born 21 June 1960) is a South African politician who served as the North West's Member of the Executive Council (MEC) for Culture, Arts and Traditional Affairs from May 2016 to May 2019.
She resigned from the mayoral office in May 2014 in order to be sworn in to the provincial legislature and to Supra Mahumapelo's North West Executive Council.
However, she had not stood as a candidate in the 2014 general election, meaning that her appointment was highly irregular in terms of South African law.
She therefore resigned from her new positions shortly after being sworn in to them, and thereafter she served as a political adviser to Mahumapelo until January 2016, when she officially joined the legislature.
[2][3] This was apparently possible because one of the politicians elected on the ANC's list, Thandi Modise, had declined her seat in order to join the national Parliament – although Mochware's appointment was nonetheless irregular, since legislation required that Modise's seat should be filled by the next candidate on the ANC's party list.
[1] On 8 May 2016, she was appointed to the North West Executive Council in a reshuffle by Mahumapelo, who named her as MEC for Culture, Arts and Traditional Affairs.