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Robert Mashego
Mfana Robert Mashego is a South African politician who served as the Chairperson of the Portfolio Committee on Water and Sanitation in the National Assembly from 2021 until 2024. A member of the African National Congress, he was Member of Parliament from 2019 until 2024. Mashego is also a member of the South African Communist Party. BackgroundMashego holds a local government certificate, a political school certificate from Walter Sisulu University, a certificate in public administration from the University of Pretoria, a certificate in International Capacity Building and Good Governance from Australia Habitat Studies, a local government and local governance qualification from the University of Johannesburg and a local democracy and local governance qualification from the International Training Centre of the International Labour Organization.[1] Mashego is a former deputy president of the South African Transport and Allied Workers Union and a former member of the organisation's provincial executive committee in Gauteng. He also served as the chairperson and as the deputy chairperson of the South African Communist Party in Ekurhuleni.[1] Parliamentary careerMashego was elected to the National Assembly in the 2019 general election from the ANC's Gauteng list.[2][3] He served on the Portfolio Committee on Human Settlements, Water and Sanitation. During a virtual committee meeting in April 2020 amid the COVID-19 pandemic in South Africa, Mashego was criticised for joking that fellow ANC MP Enock Mthethwa's Zoom background, which mainly consisted of whiskey bottles, was making him "thirsty" at a time the sale of alcoholic beverages were prohibited by the national government.[4] In August 2021, the ANC announced that Mashego would be taking up the role as chairperson of the newly established Portfolio Committee on Water and Sanitation.[5][6] He was elected unopposed on 31 August.[7] Mashego was not listed as an ANC candidate for the 2024 general elections.[8] References
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