Onicca Moloi

Mmaneo Onicca Moloi (born 1979/1980) is a South African politician and businesswoman who represented the African National Congress (ANC) in the Limpopo Provincial Legislature from 2014 to 2019. She was also Limpopo's Member of the Executive Council (MEC) for Sports, Arts and Culture from September 2016 until July 2018, when she made a forthright Facebook post and resigned. A trained chef, she rose to political prominence through the Limpopo branch of the ANC Youth League.

Education and early career Moloi was born in 1979 or 1980 and has an undergraduate degree in political science. She became politically active as a member of the South African Students Congress (SASCO) and was Provincial Treasurer of SASCO's Limpopo branch from 2001 to 2002. She was first elected to the Provincial Executive Committee of the ANCYL in Limpopo in 2003.

Career in provincial government In the 2014 general election, she was elected to the provincial legislature, ranked 19th on the ANC's provincial party list. She was viewed as a possible candidate for election as Provincial Chairperson of the ANCYL in Limpopo, According to Moloi, she was Limpopo's youngest MEC at that time.

At a party elective conference in June 2018, Moloi campaigned to succeed Basikopo Makamu as Deputy Provincial Secretary of the Limpopo ANC. However, she was defeated by Makamu and, at the same conference, failed to gain election to the ANC's Provincial Executive Committee; the Zoutpansberger reported that Moloi, after losing the Deputy Provincial Secretary contest, had declined her nomination to run for election to the committee. Shortly after the elective conference, on 2 July 2018, Moloi made a controversial post on Facebook, addressed to the "Masana bishops" in what eNCA reported was an allusion to a lodge frequented by provincial party leaders. In a subsequent comment, Moloi wrote: He he he... Thina [us/we] we know our sins. We refused to be summoned to late meetings. We refused to be told what to write on Facebook, who to greet, which party to go to and what should be our views on the regional politics of Peter Mokaba [party branch in Capricorn District].

Personal life Moloi has three children, two sons and one daughter. She had her first child at age 17.