Seaparo Sekoati was a Member of the Limpopo Provincial Legislature from 2004 until 2024 and served in the Limpopo provincial government as the Member of the Executive Council for Health and Social Development from 2004 to 2009 and, before serving as the MEC for Finance from 2019 until 2024, MEC for Economic Development, Environment and Tourism from 2013 to 2019.
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Seaparo Sekoati later earned a Bachelor's degree in social science from the University of the North in 1993 and a Master's degree in development from the University of Limpopo in 2011; he earned a tertiary diploma at the University of Zambia in 1996.
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Seaparo Sekoati served on the Limpopo Executive Council from 2004 to 2009 during the tenure of Sello Moloto as Premier of Limpopo; he was Member of the Executive Council for Health and Social Development.
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Seaparo Sekoati thus served the next few years, from 2009 to 2013, as an ordinary Member of the Limpopo Provincial Legislature.
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On 19 July 2013, Seaparo Sekoati was reappointed to the Executive Council by Stan Mathabatha, who had recently succeeded Mathale as Premier after the ANC asked Mathale to resign.
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Seaparo Sekoati ultimately served as MEC for Economic Development, Environment and Tourism until 2019, throughout Mathabatha's first full term as Premier.
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In late November 2013, at a party regional elective conference in Phalaborwa that was later challenged in court, Seaparo Sekoati was elected to succeed Joshua Matlou as Regional Chairperson of the ANC's Mopani branch.
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Seaparo Sekoati beat David Maake, the outgoing Deputy Regional Chairperson, with 99 votes to Maake's 72.
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At the next regional elective conference in September 2017, held in Tzaneen, Seaparo Sekoati ran for re-election but was defeated by Pule Shayi, who received 155 votes to his 131.
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At the ANC's next provincial elective conference in 2022, Seaparo Sekoati failed to gain re-election to the ANC Provincial Executive Committee.
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Shortly after the election, Mathabatha announced his newly constituted Executive Council, in which Seaparo Sekoati assumed the senior position of MEC for Finance, the political head of the Limpopo Treasury.
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Seaparo Sekoati was elected to the National Assembly of South Africa in the 2024 general election.
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Seaparo Sekoati is married and has at least one child, an adult daughter.