Hon. Kwekwe Willian Bulwane
MEC Bulwane has long being in the political space. Driven by his passion to fight for freedom and deeply touched by the appalling living conditions of some people in his birth township, he embarked on his political career when still studying. His early political activism saw him participating in many community protests, leading him to become an Apartheid security branch target which then resulted him to run away from his family at an early age.
During the Convention for a Democratic South Africa (CODESA) that was preparing for the first democratic elections tenure, Bulwane was one of the activists deployed into election structures to mobilise for the ANC victory. Following the experience acquired during the first historic democratic National Elections, Bulwane was again part of the team tasked to assist in the first Local Government Election in 1995. He then graduated into ANC structures, served as the ANC Regional leader and later appointed as a Regional Organiser in Northern Free State now known as Fezile Dabi Region.
Bulwane joined Metsimaholo Local Municipality as Political Adviser to the Speaker, and later became the Speaker at the same Municipality. In 2013 he was elected into the ANC Provincial Executive Committee as a Provincial Secretary and became the Ex-Officio to the National Executive Committee. Bulwane was then assigned to the Free State Provincial Legislature, where he only served for four days and before resigning on request of the Provincial Task Team (PTT) to take the Province to the Provincial Conference and head the election structure for the elections in May 2019. He is currently the Head of Elections and IPC member of the ANC in the Free State Province.
After serving as MEC for Agriculture and Rural Development, Honourable Bulwane has been appointed as the Member of the Executive Council (MEC), responsible for the Free State Department of Police, Roads and Transport in October 2021.