Title: Ms

Initials: AT

Surname: Moraka

Names: Anna Thandi

Date of birth: 15 October 1983

Ms Anna Thandi Moraka

Deputy Minister of International Relations and Cooperation

Deputy Minister Moraka was Member of the Executive Council (MEC) for Sports, Arts and Culture in the Limpopo provincial government between July 2018 and October 2022. In 2022, she was elected to a five-year term on the party’s National Executive Committee (NEC). She formerly served as Deputy Secretary-General of the African National Congress (ANC) Youth League from 2015 to 2019 and as a member of the Limpopo ANC’s Provincial Executive Committee from 2018 to 2022.

 

Ms Moraka rose to prominence as an activist in the ANC and the ANC Youth League (ANCYL). Her local ANC branch is in Modimolle in the Waterberg region of South Africa’s Limpopo province. Until 2010, she was Deputy Provincial Secretary of the ANCYL’s Limpopo branch.

 

On 4 May 2015, at a provincial league elective conference, Ms Moraka was elected as the Deputy Provincial Chairperson of the Limpopo branch of the ANCYL. Ms Moraka was then elected unopposed to the more senior position of national ANCYL Deputy Secretary-General.

 

In June 2018, at an elective conference of the Limpopo branch of the mainstream ANC, Ms Moraka was elected to an ordinary seat of the Provincial Executive Committee of the ANC in Limpopo. She was also elected to its Provincial Working Committee.

 

By 2014, Ms Moraka was a Member of the Limpopo Provincial Legislature. In late July 2018, after her election to the Limpopo ANC’s Provincial Executive Committee, she was appointed to the Limpopo Executive Council. She became MEC for Sports, Arts and Culture. She was re-elected to her legislative seat in the 2019 general election.

 

In July 2024, Ms Moraka was appointed as the Deputy Minister of International Relations and Cooperation.