Nomvula Mokonyane

Nomvula Mokonyane
Deputy Secretary-General of the African National Congress
Incumbent
Assumed office 19 December 2022 Serving with Maropene Ramokgopa
Secretary-General	Fikile Mbalula
Preceded by	Jessie Duarte (as sole Deputy Secretary-General)
Minister of Environmental Affairs
In office 22 November 2018 – 25 May 2019
President	Cyril Ramaphosa
Preceded by	Edna Molewa
Succeeded by	Barbara Creecy
Minister of Communications
In office 27 February 2018 – 22 November 2018
President	Cyril Ramaphosa
Preceded by	Mmamoloko Kubayi
Succeeded by	Stella Ndabeni-Abrahams
Minister of Water and Sanitation
In office 26 May 2014 – 26 February 2018
President	Jacob Zuma Cyril Ramaphosa
Preceded by	Edna Molewa (as Minister of Water and Environmental Affairs)
Succeeded by	Gugile Nkwinti
Member of the National Assembly of South Africa
In office May 2009 – 22 May 2019
Succeeded by	Annah Gela
Constituency	Gauteng
5th Premier of Gauteng
In office 6 May 2009 – 20 May 2014
Preceded by	Paul Mashatile
Succeeded by	David Makhura
Deputy Provincial Chairperson of the African National Congress in Gauteng
In office 7 October 2007 – May 2010
Chairperson	Paul Mashatile
Preceded by	Angie Motshekga
Succeeded by	Gwen Ramokgopa
Member of the Gauteng Provincial Legislature
In office 27 April 1994 – 6 May 2014
Personal details
Born	(1963-06-28) 28 June 1963 (age 61) Kagiso, Transvaal South Africa
Political party	African National Congress
Other political affiliations	South African Communist Party

Nomvula Paula Mokonyane (born 28 June 1963) is a South African politician who is currently the First Deputy Secretary-General of the African National Congress (ANC). She was the first female Premier of Gauteng from 2009 to 2014 and subsequently served in the national government as Minister of Water and Sanitation from 2014 to 2018, Minister of Communications in 2018, and Minister of Environmental Affairs from 2018 to 2019.

Born in Gauteng, Mokonyane was a labour, community, and gender activist during apartheid. She was first elected as a Member of the Gauteng Provincial Legislature in 1994 and she served as a Member of the Executive Council in Gauteng from 1996 to 2009. Following the 2009 general election, Mokonyane, then the Deputy Provincial Chairperson of the ANC in Gauteng, was elected to succeed Paul Mashatile as Premier. After a full five-year term as Premier, she was appointed to the cabinet of President Jacob Zuma, where she served in the Water and Sanitation portfolio throughout Zuma's second term. When Cyril Ramaphosa succeeded Zuma as President, he retained Mokonyane in his cabinet before demoting her after the 2019 general election. Mokonyane went on to lead the ANC's internal organising department at Luthuli House until her election to the Deputy Secretary-General post at the party's 55th National Conference in December 2022.

Known in the media as "Mama Action",^[1][2][3] Mokonyane has been a member of the ANC National Executive Committee since 2007 and formerly served on the national executive of the ANC Women's League and on the Central Committee of the South African Communist Party. In March 2022, the Zondo Commission recommended that Mokonyane should be prosecuted on charges of corruption in connection with allegations that she accepted bribes from Bosasa.