Rodgers Basikopo Makamu was born on 2 November 1973 and is a South African politician who is currently serving as Member of the Executive Council for Cooperative Governance, Human Settlements and Traditional Affairs in the Limpopo provincial government.
11 Facts About Basikopo Makamu
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Basikopo Makamu was formerly MEC for Agriculture and Rural Development between 2018 and 2019.
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Basikopo Makamu was born in Giyani in Mopani in present-day Limpopo and matriculated at Matsambu High School in Mopani in 1994, the year that apartheid ended.
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Basikopo Makamu trained as an accounting teacher but later resigned from the education sector to work in local government, becoming an accountant and then a manager at the Greater Giyani Local Municipality.
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Basikopo Makamu was a member of the African National Congress, initially through the party's Youth League.
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Basikopo Makamu resigned from his municipal job when he was elected to the full-time party position of Regional Secretary of the ANC's branch in Mopani.
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Basikopo Makamu was Regional Secretary under Regional Chairperson Seaparo Sekwati and then, after his re-election in September 2017, under Sekwati's successor, Pule Shayi.
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In June 2018, Basikopo Makamu vacated the regional party office when he was elected to a more senior position as Deputy Provincial Secretary of the ANC's Limpopo branch.
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Shortly after his election to the party office, on 26 July 2018, he joined the Limpopo Executive Council: Mathabatha, in his capacity as Premier of Limpopo, appointed Basikopo Makamu to succeed the late Joyce Mashamba as Member of the Executive Council for Agriculture and Rural Development.
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Basikopo Makamu was appointed MEC for Cooperative Governance, Human Settlements and Traditional Affairs in Mathabatha's newly constituted Executive Council.
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Basikopo Makamu was re-elected to his position as ANC Deputy Provincial Secretary at the party's next provincial elective conference in Polokwane in June 2022; he ran on a slate aligned to Mathabatha, who won re-election as ANC Provincial Chairperson at the same conference, and thereafter he deputised Reuben Madadzhe, who succeeded Soviet Lekganyane as Provincial Secretary.