Dora Kotzee, sometimes misspelled Dorah Coetzee, is a South African politician who represented the

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(ANC) in the

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from 2014 to 2019. During that time, she served as the Free State's

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(MEC) for Public Works and Infrastructure from 2015 to 2018, and from 2018 to 2019 she occupied an expanded portfolio as MEC for Public Works, Infrastructure and Human Settlements.

Political career

Until 2014, Kotzee represented the ANC as a councillor in

Lejweleputswa District Municipality The Lejweleputswa District Municipality (; ; ) is one of the 5 districts of the Free State province of South Africa. The seat of the municipality is Welkom. As of 2011, a majority of its 657,019 residents speak Sotho. The district code is DC18. ...

and

Matjhabeng Local Municipality Matjhabeng Municipality (; ; ) is a local municipality within the Lejweleputswa District Municipality, in the Free State province of South Africa. The municipality includes Welkom, Virginia, Odendaalsrus and Allanridge. ''Matjhabeng'' is a Seso ...

. In the 2014 general election, she was narrowly elected to an ANC seat in the

, ranked 22nd on the ANC's provincial party list. She served as Deputy Majority Chief Whip in the legislature until May 2015, when Premier

Ace Magashule Elias Sekgobelo "Ace" Magashule (born 3 November 1959) is a South African politician and former anti-apartheid activist who served as the Secretary General of the African National Congress (ANC), South Africa's governing party, between December ...

announced that she would join the Free State Executive Council in a reshuffle. She succeeded Sam Mashinini as MEC for Public Works and Infrastructure. Kotzee continued in that portfolio throughout the rest of Magashule's premiership and into the term of Magashule's successor, Premier Sisi Ntombela. In Ntombela's first reshuffle, announced in May 2018, Kotzee retained the Public Works and Infrastructure portfolio and was additionally allocated responsibility for the Human Settlements portfolio, making her MEC for Public Works, Infrastructure and Human Settlements. The following year, Kotzee left the legislature and the Executive Council after the 2019 general election; ranked 25th on the ANC's party list, she did not secure re-election to her seat. As of 2022, she had returned to Lejweleputswa District Municipality, where she served as a councillor and Member of the Mayoral Committee.

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