Pemmy Majodina

Pemmy Castelina Pamela Majodina (born 24 December 1968) is a South African politician from the Eastern Cape.

[4] During the Travelgate scandal, Majodina was served with summons in a lawsuit to retrieve improperly claimed travel expenses from Members of Parliament,[5] though she was not among those who faced criminal charges.

[6] After she was sworn in to her seat, she was elected as chairperson of the legislature's Portfolio Committee on Roads and Public Works, a position she held for the next four years.

[8] After the April 2009 provincial election, Noxolo Kiviet became Premier and appointed Majodina as MEC for Roads and Public Works.

In November 2010, Kiviet moved Majodina to a new portfolio as MEC for Social Development, Women, Youth and People with Disabilities.

First, in April 2021, she was accused of harboring an improper conflict of interest after press reported that her son, Mkhonto weSizwe Majodina, was the sole director of a company that had been awarded a R52,500 contract to supply thermometers to ANC constituency offices.

Two of Majodina's critics inside the ANC caucus, Mervyn Dirks and Lawrence McDonald, laid complaints against her with the Public Protector and the South African Police.

[27] Two years later, in June 2023, Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane laid a complaint against Majodina and two other ANC representatives, Richard Dyantyi and Tina Joemat-Pettersson, with Parliament's Joint Committee on Ethics and Members' Interests.

[30] However, some commentators argued that she had lacked gravitas in the position and criticized her "vacuous" public defense of President Cyril Ramaphosa.

[31][32] Majodina was re-elected to the National Assembly in the May 2024 general election, and President Ramaphosa appointed her to succeed Senzo Mchunu as Minister of Water and Sanitation in his new multi-party cabinet.

[34] During her first year in office, Majodina oversaw the establishment of the new South African National Water Resources Infrastructure Agency.

Majodina during a parliamentary debate in November 2019
Majodina (third from left) on a visit to Leinster House with opposition party whips in June 2023