Grace Pampiri-Bothman

Sizeni Grace Pampiri-Bothman is a South African politician who represented the African National Congress (ANC) in the National Assembly from November 2010 to May 2014. She has been a member of the Central Committee of the South African Communist Party (SACP) since 2012.

Before joining the National Assembly, Bothman served in the North West Provincial Legislature, where she was the North West's Member of the Executive Council (MEC) for Sports, Arts and Culture from May 2009 to August 2010. Her dismissal from the Executive Council, effected by Premier Maureen Modiselle, was highly unpopular with both the SACP and the Congress of South African Trade Unions and therefore severely undermined the ANC's relations with its Tripartite Alliance partners in the North West.

Early political career Pampiri-Bothman was formerly a prominent activist in the South African Commercial, Catering and Allied Workers Union, an affiliate of the ANC-aligned Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU), and she later served as a local councillor in Klerksdorp in the North West. She was also a prominent member of the South African Communist Party (SACP) in the North West. Her appointment was viewed as reflective of an intentional strategy to strengthen the Tripartite Alliance by including representatives of the SACP in the provincial executive. Modiselle said that Pampiri-Bothman's had demonstrated behaviour which could be "very detrimental and catastrophic" to service delivery and said that she was ordering an external audit to investigate allegations that Pampiri-Bothman's department had misused public funds and awarded tenders irregularly. The press statement noted that Pampiri-Bothman was the second North West MEC to be fired outright since the end of apartheid in 1994 (the other was Mmamokwena Gaoretelelwe). while Pampiri-Bothman's supporters claimed that she was fired because she had been intending to order her own investigation into allegations of improper tender awards in the provincial government. She completed the legislative term in the seat but did not stand for re-election in 2014. and, even after retreating from frontline legislative politics, she remained a member of the committee, gaining re-election in 2017 and 2022.