Ontlametse Mochware | |
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Member of the North West Executive Council for Culture, Arts and Traditional Affairs | |
In office 8 May 2016 – 7 May 2019 | |
Premier | |
Preceded by | Tebogo Modise |
Succeeded by | Position abolished |
Member of the North West Provincial Legislature | |
In office January 2016 – 7 May 2019 | |
Personal details | |
Born | Gamanyai, Ganyesa Transvaal, Union of South Africa | 21 June 1960
Political party | African National Congress |
Ontlametse Regina Mochware (born 21 June 1960) is a South African politician who served as the North West's Member of the Executive Council (MEC) for Culture, Arts and Traditional Affairs from May 2016 to May 2019. She represented the African National Congress (ANC) in the North West Provincial Legislature from January 2016 until May 2019.
A former teacher and school principal, Mochware was the Mayor of Kagisano–Molopo Local Municipality from 2006 to 2014. She resigned from the mayoral office in May 2014 in order to be sworn in to the provincial legislature and to Supra Mahumapelo's North West Executive Council. However, she had not stood as a candidate in the 2014 general election, meaning that her appointment was highly irregular in terms of South African law. She therefore resigned from her new positions shortly after being sworn in to them, and thereafter she served as a political adviser to Mahumapelo until January 2016, when she officially joined the legislature.