On 8 August 2018, Mashamaite was sworn in to the Limpopo Provincial Legislature, filling a
casual vacancy created when
Soviet Lekganyane resigned to take up a full-time party position as ANC
Provincial Secretary. He was appointed to chair the legislature's committee on ethics and members' interests. In the
2019 general election, he was elected to his first full term in the provincial legislature, ranked 19th on the ANC's provincial
party list. When the legislature sat for the first time, he was named its Chairperson of Committees ("Chair of Chairs"), with
Che Selane as his deputy. In August 2021, the National Prosecuting Authority announced that Mashamaite faced corruption charges relating to multimillion-rand tender irregularities at the
Mogalakwena Local Municipality between 2016 and 2019. He and his co-accused – who included former Mogalakwena Mayor Andrina Matsemela and Mashamaite's brother, Jabu Mashmaite, a Mogalakwena municipal employee – were charged with corruption,
money laundering, and conspiracy to commit corruption. While court proceedings were ongoing, the Limpopo ANC announced that it had removed Mashamaite from the Chairperson of Committees position, demoting him to an ordinary
Member of the Provincial Legislature; it said the decision was in line with the national party's
step-aside rule. On 6 March 2023, Mashamaite was arrested in Mokopane. He and several others were accused of involvement in the
assassination of local politicians Vaaltyn Kekana and Ralph Kanyane, who had been shot dead in July 2019 after Kekana threatened to
blow the whistle on corruption in Mogalakwena Local Municipality. Mashamaite was released on bail, and the ANC said that he would serve the rest of his term in his legislative seat. He lost his seat in
the next general election in May 2024. == References ==