African Union Commissioner for Infrastructure & Energy @au_ied | Champion of African Integration, Trade, Industrialisation & Prosperity| Africa Optimist. ✝️
Thank you Africa for electing me as your new African Union Commissioner for Infrastructure and Energy.
The hard work begins now. We will integrate the continent in our lifetime.
#AU#PICI#PIDA
I am deeply honoured and grateful to be entrusted with the role of African Union Commissioner for #Infrastructure and #Energy. I promise to honour the trust you have placed in me. I declare to you, #Africa, that driving change for a better tomorrow will guide every step I take.
Last week I stood at a defining moment as I took the solemn oath to serve our beloved continent as a Commissioner of the African Union. This is not merely an honour but a profound responsibility—one that I embrace with unwavering dedication, humility and a firm resolve to
I am very pleased that our Assembly of Heads of State have elected leadership of the African Union. We must accelerate the implementation of Agenda 2063.
Our leaders will receive my full support and collaboration.
#AfricanUnionDecides#agenda2063#Infrastructure#energy
On Wednesday last week, my home country South Africa organised a send-off for me, as I move to Addis Ababa to serve my beloved continent of Africa at the African Union. I am grateful for the opportunity to serve and will do my country and continent proud, so help me God.
It is a privilege to have received H.E. President Cyril Ramaphosa’s support for my candidacy as African Union Commissioner for Infrastructure and Energy.
#theafricawewant#africanunion#AUElections#PIDA#PICI
It was an honour being hosted by my sister Ambassador @APRM_MarieRose and her APRM team to discuss Africa’s digital future and key principles that we must advocate for. The APRM strengthens the @_AfricanUnion by reviewing Member States’ rate of implementation of commitments they
We have just had a few days of strategic engagements with H.E. the President of Ghana 🇬🇭 @JDMahama and his Cabinet on building blocks towards a prosperous and more influential Ghana. Prof. @LopesInsights and @LucyMbabazi were some of the intellectual voices shaping the policy
On my very first visit as an AU elected official, I had the honour of being received and hosted by the Chairperson of the AU Executive Council, Honourable Minister @amb_tete Tete Antonio in Angola. My sister @nardosbthomas was on hand as the CEO of our premier executing agency
In support of the Chairperson of the AU Commission, H.E. Mahmoud Ali Youssouf, we met H.E President Joao Lourenco; so as to appreciate the President’s vision for Angola’s 2025 chair-ship of the African Union. Peace and security as well as infrastructure development are apex
