Desbo Mohono | |
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Speaker of the North West Provincial Legislature | |
Assumed office 14 June 2024 | |
Preceded by | Sussana Dantjie |
Member of the North West Executive Council for Agriculture and Rural Development | |
In office December 2018 – 14 June 2024 | |
Premier | |
Preceded by | Manketsi Tlhape |
Succeeded by | Madoda Sambatha |
In office May 2012 – May 2014 | |
Premier | Thandi Modise |
Preceded by | Boitumelo Tshwene |
Succeeded by | Manketsi Tlhape |
Member of the North West Provincial Legislature | |
Assumed office 2009 | |
Member of the North West Executive Council for Tourism | |
In office May 2014 – December 2018 | |
Premier | |
Preceded by | Motlalepula Rosho (for Economic Development, Environment, Conservation and Tourism) |
Succeeded by | Wendy Nelson |
Personal details | |
Born | Chaneng, Rustenberg Transvaal, South Africa | 28 October 1970
Political party | African National Congress |
Other political affiliations | South African Communist Party |
Sebonta Desbo Mohono (born 28 October 1970) is a South African politician who is currently serving as the speaker of the North West Provincial Legislature. Since 2009, she has served continuously in the North West Provincial Legislature and the Executive Council of the North West, including as MEC for Tourism from 2014 to 2018 and as the MEC for Agriculture and Rural Development from December 2018 until June 2024.
A teacher by training, she rose to political prominence through the South African Democratic Teachers Union and Congress of South African Trade Unions. She is a member of the African National Congress and in 2022 was elected to a four-year term on the party's Provincial Executive Committee.