| Robert Mashego | |
| Office: | Chairperson of the Portfolio Committee on Water and Sanitation |
| Term Start: | 31 August 2021 |
| Term End: | 28 May 2024 |
| Predecessor: | New committee |
| Successor: | Leon Basson |
| Office1: | Member of the National Assembly of South Africa |
| Term Start1: | 22 May 2019 |
| Term End1: | 28 May 2024 |
| Constituency1: | Gauteng |
| Birthname: | Mfana Robert Mashego |
| Nationality: | South African |
| Party: | African National Congress South African Communist Party |
| Occupation: | Member of Parliament |
| Profession: | Politician |
Mfana Robert Mashego is a South African politician who served as the Chairperson of the Portfolio Committee on Water and Sanitation in the National Assembly from 2021 until 2024. A member of the African National Congress, he was Member of Parliament from 2019 until 2024. Mashego is also a member of the South African Communist Party.
Mashego holds a local government certificate, a political school certificate from Walter Sisulu University, a certificate in public administration from the University of Pretoria, a certificate in International Capacity Building and Good Governance from Australia Habitat Studies, a local government and local governance qualification from the University of Johannesburg and a local democracy and local governance qualification from the International Training Centre of the International Labour Organization.[1]
Mashego is a former deputy president of the South African Transport and Allied Workers Union and a former member of the organisation's provincial executive committee in Gauteng. He also served as the chairperson and as the deputy chairperson of the South African Communist Party in Ekurhuleni.[1]
Mashego was elected to the National Assembly in the 2019 general election from the ANC's Gauteng list.[2] [3] He served on the Portfolio Committee on Human Settlements, Water and Sanitation.
During a virtual committee meeting in April 2020 amid the COVID-19 pandemic in South Africa, Mashego was criticised for joking that fellow ANC MP Enock Mthethwa's Zoom background, which mainly consisted of whiskey bottles, was making him "thirsty" at a time the sale of alcoholic beverages were prohibited by the national government.[4]
In August 2021, the ANC announced that Mashego would be taking up the role as chairperson of the newly established Portfolio Committee on Water and Sanitation.[5] [6] He was elected unopposed on 31 August.[7]
Mashego was not listed as an ANC candidate for the 2024 general elections.[8]