The South African Communist Party in Gauteng Province welcomes the announcement on the deployment of comrade Uhuru Moiloa as the new MEC of Human Settlement and Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs. The deployment follows the resignation of MEC Mashatile who was elected as Treasury General of the African National Congress.

We believe comrade Uhuru Moiloa will make his contribution in the effort to consolidate, advance and take forward the transformation of municipalities as a strategic and critical sphere of government in building a developmental capable state. We also believe that he will play a key role to ensure the delivery of human settlements as a strategic intervention in improving the quality of life for our people.

We further welcome the deployment of comrade Nomantu Nkomo-Ralehoko as Deputy Speaker, former Cosatu Provincial Secretary Siphiwe Mgcina as Portfolio Chairperson of Road and Transport and Madlala Fiko as Chairperson of Committees in the Legislature.

We congratulate and welcome the deployment of our 1st Deputy Provincial Secretary, comrade Mpapa Kanyane as the Deputy Chairperson of Committees in the Legislature.

We are encouraged by the principled consultation, robustness and maturity of engagement of Alliance partners on the deployments. We believe that this build the necessary momentum for the renewal and reconfiguration of the Alliance.

We also believe that the renewed unity of the Alliance augurs well for an absolutely necessary, strategic and principled debate on the alignment and reordering of provincial state departments to the overwhelming provincial vision of Transformation, Modernisation and Reindustrialisation ( TMR).

We pledge our commitment to work with and support newly deployed cadres.

Issued by the SACP Gauteng province