provision of services to the apartheid policy of influx control. Madikizela was appointed as Provincial Minister of Human Settlements following his re-election in May 2014. In April 2015, Madikizela was elected deputy provincial leader of the Democratic Alliance in the Western Cape, unseating DA veteran Theuns Botha. He was subsequently named the acting provincial leader in February 2017, when incumbent Patricia de Lille resigned. He was elected to the position for a full term on 7 October 2017. Madikizela was appointed as Provincial Minister of Transport and Public Works by newly elected premier Alan Winde in May 2019. Madikizela was also the Leader of Government Business in the Provincial Parliament. In October 2019, he declared his intention to run for interim Federal Leader of the DA following Mmusi Maimane's resignation. Madikizela dropped out of the leadership race on 11 November 2019. John Steenhuisen was elected interim leader on 17 November 2019. On 26 January 2020, Madikizela announced that he would consider running for DA Federal Leader at the party's Federal Congress. He declined to run for the post on 10 February 2020. He then declared his intention to seek re-election as provincial leader. In mid-November 2020, Madikizela was accused of plotting to assassinate his main competitor for the position, Masizole Mnqasela, the speaker of the provincial parliament. The Federal Legal Commission of the DA "cleared" him of any wrongdoing on 20 November. Madikizela was re-elected as provincial leader on 21 November. Executive Ethics Code violation and qualifications scandal On 1 April 2021, acting Public Protector Kholeka Gcaleka released a report that found that Madikizela had violated the Executive Ethics Codes by making misleading or false statements to the legislature about Brett Herron, a Good MPP. Herron had lodged the complaint. Madikizela rejected the legality of the report and said that he would be seeking legal advice. On 6 April 2021, Madikizela announced that he had applied to be the DA's mayoral candidate for the City of Cape Town. He was up against incumbent mayor Dan Plato and the DA's finance spokesman, Geordin Hill-Lewis. On 13 April 2021, Daily Maverick reported that Madikizela did not have a Bachelor of Commerce degree in Human Resource Management as previously claimed and that he had misled a journalist in this regard. The next day, the DA subsequently announced that its Federal Legal Commission would investigate claims that he lied about having a BCom degree.