Gauteng to elect new premier
2008-10-07 09:04
Johannesburg - The Gauteng Provincial Legislature is set to elect the ANC's provincial chairperson, Paul Mashatile, as its new premier on Tuesday.
He will succeed Mbhazima Shilowa, who resigned last week to protest the decision to oust former president Thabo Mbeki.
The African National Congress announced on Friday that Mashatile, who is also the Gauteng MEC for finance and economic affairs, had been recommended for the job.
The provincial legislature will convene a special sitting on Tuesday morning to officially elect him.
Shilowa was criticised by the ANC and the Congress of SA Trade Unions, of which he is a former secretary general, when he publicly disagreed with the decision by the national executive committee to remove Mbeki from office.
- SAPA