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The Executive Council of the Western Cape is the cabinet of the executive branch of the provincial government in the South African province of the Western Cape.The Members of the Executive Council (MECs) are appointed from among the members of the Western Cape Provincial Legislature by the Premier of the Western Cape, an office held since the 2019 general election by Alan Winde.
The Western Cape, the only province to have adopted its own constitution, chose to call its executive council the "Provincial Cabinet", and its MECs "Provincial Ministers". [ 3 ] Membership of executive councils
Premier of the Northern Cape: Zamani Saul (ANC) Premier of the Western Cape: Alan Winde ; The Premier appoints an Executive Council (a cabinet) of five to ten members of the provincial legislature. The Members of the Executive Council (or MECs) are responsible for the various departments of the provincial administration. Because the ...
The Western Cape province of South Africa is governed in a parliamentary system in which the people elect the Provincial Parliament, and the parliament elects the Premier as head of the executive. The Premier leads a cabinet of provincial ministers overseeing various executive departments.
The Premier has the power to hire and fire MECs at their own discretion. The Western Cape is the only province where MECs are known as Provincial Ministers and the Executive Council is known as the Provincial Cabinet, in terms of Section 42 of the Constitution of the Western Cape, 1997. [2]
Cape Metropolitan Council v Minister of Provincial Affairs and Constitutional Development and Another: 15 October 1999: Langa [1999] ZACC 13: Executive Council of the Western Cape v Minister for Provincial Affairs and Constitutional Development and Another; Executive Council of KwaZulu-Natal v President of the Republic of South Africa and Others
In South Africa's first post-apartheid elections in 1994, McKenzie was elected to the Western Cape Provincial Parliament, where he ultimately served in a variety of portfolios in the Western Cape Executive Council. [5] In the legislature, he represented the National Party (NP), which had governed South Africa under apartheid.
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