Desbo Mohono

Desbo Mohono
Speaker of the North West Provincial Legislature
Assumed office
14 June 2024
Preceded bySussana Dantjie
Member of the North West Executive Council for Agriculture and Rural Development
In office
December 2018 – 14 June 2024
Premier
Preceded byManketsi Tlhape
Succeeded byMadoda Sambatha
In office
May 2012 – May 2014
PremierThandi Modise
Preceded byBoitumelo Tshwene
Succeeded byManketsi 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 byMotlalepula Rosho (for Economic Development, Environment, Conservation and Tourism)
Succeeded byWendy Nelson
Personal details
Born (1970-10-28) 28 October 1970 (age 54)
Chaneng, Rustenberg
Transvaal, South Africa
Political partyAfrican 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.