First term: 2019–2024 On 28 May 2019, following the
2019 general election, newly elected Premier
Oscar Mabuyane announced his new
Executive Council; he retained four MECs from the previous administration, although three of those four had not joined until 2018. On 18 February 2021, Mabuyane announced that he had fired
Sindiswa Gomba as Health MEC amid allegations that she had been involved in procurement irregularities. Gomba's replacement was appointed in a cabinet reshuffle affecting four portfolios, announced by Mabuyane in early March. In May 2022, shortly after losing his bid to oust Mabuyane as ANC
Provincial Chairperson at a party conference, Public Works MEC
Babalo Madikizela announced his intention to resign from government. He officially resigned in late July. His departure occasioned a cabinet reshuffle, announced on 16 August, in which Mabuyane appointed three new MECs and moved three others to different portfolios. The two MECs fired in the reshuffle –
Fezeka Nkomonye and
Weziwe Tikana-Gxothiwe – were viewed as having supported Madikizela's campaign at the ANC conference.
Second term: 2024–present Following the ANC's victory in the
Eastern Cape in the 2024 provincial election, premier
Oscar Mabuyane was re-elected during the first sitting of the legislature on 14 June 2024. He announced his new executive council a week later which saw five Members of the Executive Council retained in their positions from the previous administration. == See also ==