Siphosezwe Masango

Moses Siphosezwe Amos Masango is a South African politician who represented the African National Congress (ANC) in the National Assembly from 2014 to 2019, during which time he chaired the Portfolio Committee on International Relations and Cooperation. Before that, he served in the Mpumalanga Provincial Legislature and also sat on the Mpumalanga Executive Council.

Legislative career Masango is a member of the African National Congress (ANC) and served as the party's Deputy Provincial Secretary in Mpumalanga from 1999 to 2002. He also served in the Mpumalanga Executive Council prior to 2004 and ahead of the 2004 general election he was ranked first in the ANC's internal candidate selection process, receiving more nominations than even the outgoing Premier, Ndaweni Mahlangu. After the election, he was retained in the Executive Council by Mahlangu's successor, Premier Thabang Makwetla, who appointed him as Member of the Executive Council (MEC) for Education.

He was re-elected to another term in the Mpumalanga Provincial Legislature in the 2009 general election, ranked ninth on the ANC's provincial party list. However, he was not initially appointed to the Executive Council of newly elected Premier David Mabuza. Instead, he served as an ordinary Member of the Provincial Legislature until 3 November 2010, when Mabuza announced a reshuffle which saw Masango return to the Executive Council as MEC for Human Settlements. He remained in that position until Mabuza's second reshuffle, announced on 18 February 2013, in which he was fired for "poor performance".

In the 2014 general election, Masango was elected to an ANC seat in the National Assembly, the lower house of the South African Parliament; he was ranked 91st on the ANC's national party list. During the legislative term that followed, he chaired the Portfolio Committee on International Relations and Cooperation.