South Africa: ANC Agrees On Thandi Modise for Speaker, Mokgoro to Be North West Premier Candidate

Thandi Modise - the former National Council of Provinces (NCOP) chairperson - will be the ANC's candidate for Speaker of the National Assembly, the ANC has announced.

Following a meeting of the party's National Executive Committee in Cape Town on Monday, secretary general Ace Magashule told journalists that Modise would be succeeding Baleka Mbete as the head of the national legislature.

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