Mohale’s appointment as acting MEC for Education follows after the passing of MEC Tate Makgoe in the early hours of Sunday 5 March 2023 in a car accident. This wouldn’t be Mohale’s first time actin.
Makgoe has been serving as a member of the Provincial Legislature in the province since the dawn of democracy in 1994. He lost his life alongside his protector, Vuyo Mdi, in a car accid.
The Education MEC, Tate Makgoe and warrant officer Vuyo Mdi, lost their lives after the car they were travelling in collided with three cows on the N1 outside Winburg in the early hours of Sunday. .
Mourners streamed into the family home of Free State Education MEC Tate Makgoe on Sunday 5 March after the MEC and one of his bodyguards were killed in a car crash.