Zamani Saul

Saul served as the municipal manager of the Pixley ka Seme District Municipality from 2000 to 2008.^[4] He served as ANC Deputy Provincial Secretary from 2004 until his election as Provincial Secretary in 2008. He won re-election to a second term in 2012.^[5][6]

On 12 May 2017, Saul was elected unopposed as the Provincial Chairperson of the African National Congress in the Northern Cape after Premier Sylvia Lucas had withdrawn her nomination for the position. Saul succeeded John Block, who had resigned from the position in October 2015. Deshi Ngxanga succeeded Saul as Provincial Secretary.^[7][8]

Saul is seen as someone who is aligned with the Ramaphosa faction of the African National Congress, as he endorsed Cyril Ramaphosa to become ANC President in 2017.^[9][10][11] On 8 May 2019, the ANC retained their majority in the Northern Cape Provincial Legislature. Saul was selected as the party's premier candidate on 13 May 2019. He assumed the office on 22 May 2019.^[12][13][14] In his first few months, he pledged to cut what he called "wastage" from the Northern Cape government; he declared that it was unacceptable and wasteful spending that as Premier he would be offered a bowl of fresh fruit every morning in his office and that his official car of Premier would be replaced after 120,000 km while ambulances in the province would run 952,000+km before replacement.^[15] Accordingly, he banned Northern Cape ministers from getting new cars and used the money to buy 63 new ambulances instead.^[16]

• People's Assembly profile
• Zamani Saul, Dr – South African Government
• Profile: Dr Zamani Saul – Northern Cape Government
• Profile: Dr Zamani Saul – NCPLEG
• Dr Zamani Saul: The Northern Cape's new 'activist premier'