Seaparo Sekoati

[3] In the 2014 general election, Sekoati was ranked fifth on the ANC's party list and gained re-election to the provincial legislature,[4] and Mathabatha reappointed him to his earlier portfolio.

[5] Sekoati ultimately served as MEC for Economic Development, Environment and Tourism until 2019, throughout Mathabatha's first full term as Premier.

[6] At the next regional elective conference in September 2017, held in Tzaneen, Sekoati ran for re-election but was defeated by Pule Shayi, who received 155 votes to his 131.

[7] In the months after he was ousted as Mopani Chairperson, Sekoati stood for election as Provincial Treasurer of the ANC's Limpopo branch.

[4] Shortly after the election, Mathabatha announced his newly constituted Executive Council, in which Sekoati assumed the senior position of MEC for Finance, the political head of the Limpopo Treasury.