The executive arm of the Provincial Government is headed up by the Provincial Cabinet. Cabinet consists of selected members of parliament, appointed by the Premier. Each Cabinet Minister has a portfolio and is responsible for overseeing the work of their respective Department/s.

The Cabinet Ministers and the Premier are charged with:

• implementing provincial legislation
• implementing appropriate national legislation
• coordinating the functions of the Provincial Government and its Departments
• preparing and initiating provincial legislation.

• Ms Lynne Brown - Premier
• Ms Kholeka Mqulwana - Minister for Transport and Public Works
• Mr Patrick McKenzie - Minister for Community Safety
• Mr Marius Fransman - Minister for Health
• Mr Garth Strachan - Minister for Finance, Economic Development and Tourism
• Mr Whitey Jacobs - Minister for Housing
• Mr Pierre Uys - Minister for Local Government, Environment Affairs and Development Planning
• Mr Cobus Dowry - Minister for Agriculture
• Ms Zodwa Magwaza - Minister for Social Development
• Mr Yousuf Gabru - Minister for Education
• Mr Cameron Dugmore - Minister for Cultural Affairs and Sport.

1. To establish the Western Cape Government as caring and representative, providing quality, equitable and accessible services to all its people.
2. To orientate Government towards the poor by ensuring basic services, an indigent policy, a safety net and a caring budget.
3. To fight HIV/AIDS and other diseases in a co-ordinated and comprehensive manner which includes the provision of anti-retroviral drugs, lifestyle intervention and sustained action against poverty.
4. To deracialise and integrate all state financed institutions in a responsible manner to maintain stability and good order.
5. To develop the capacity of local government to ensure the rapid and comprehensive implementation of Integrated Development Programmes (IDP's) and free basic services.
6. To stimulate economic growth - both in the traditional and emerging sectors - with appropriate infrastructural development, and to the benefit of all through, amongst others, procurement reform.
7. To focus on agriculture and tourism towards rural development so that all inhabitants can live harmoniously and in safety.
8. To promote policies which will maintain a healthy balance between protecting the environment and developing the economy.
9. To contain and eradicate crime through good intergovernmental co-operation so that the Western Cape can be a safe and secure home, especially for our women and children.
10. To nurture our diversity and promote our various cultures, religions and languages to become the source of our unity and strength.