Ms Pemmy Majodina was appointed as Minister of Water and Sanitation from 3 July 2024.

She was a member of the National Council of Provinces from 1992 until 2004. Before she became a Member of Parliament in 2019, she served as a member of the Eastern Cape Provincial Legislature from 2004 to 2019.

She was appointed and served as Eastern Cape Member of the Executive Council (MEC) for Health from 2004 to 2008; MEC for Roads and Public Works from 2009 to 2010; MEC for Social Development and Special Programmes from 2010 to 2014; MEC for Sport, Recreation, Arts and Culture from 2014 to 2018, and MEC for Public Works from 2018 to 2019.

Ms Majodina served in various political roles, including in regional, provincial and national executives of the South African Students Congress, African National Congress (ANC) Youth League, ANC Women’s League and South African Communist Party.

She is a former member of Umkhonto we Sizwe, the ANC’s defunct military wing, and is an educator by profession. She obtained a Bachelors of Education at the National University of Lesotho (NUL) in 1996 and honors degree which she completed in 1998. In 2010, Majodina was awarded with an Honory Doctorate on Community Development by Arlington University of Australia. In 2011, she was awarded a Reverend Baartman Award for serving people with distinction. In 2015 she received the Global Humanitarian Award in the United States of America by human rights activist, Reverend Jesse Jackson.