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Mosiuoa Lekota
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| Mosiuoa Gerard Patrick Lekota | |
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| Succeeded by | Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri |
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| Born | August 13, 1948 |
| Political party | African National Congress |
Mosiuoa Gerard Patrick Lekota (13 August 1948 -) is the current (as of 2006) South African Minister of Defence, a position he has held since 17 June 1999. He was previously known as Terror Lekota because of his playing style on the soccer field.
Lekota had his primary education at Emma Farm School and most of his secondary education at Mariazel High School in Matatiele. However, he matriculated at St. Francis College in Marianhill in 1969. Although he enrolled for a social science degree at the University of the North, Lekota was expelled due to his Student Representative Council (SRC) and African National Congress (ANC) aligned South African Students' Organisation (SASO) activities in 1972.
Lekota became a permanent organiser for SASO in 1974, but was imprisoned at Robben Island Prison for "conspiring to commit acts endangering the maintenance of law and order" during the same year. He was released from prison in 1982.
After his release, he was elected publicity secretary of the United Democratic Front (UDF) in 1983. In 1985, Lekota was detained and later sentenced in the Delmas trial. However, he was released in 1989 after the Appeal Court reviewed the sentence.
In 1990, Lekota became convenor of the ANC in Southern Natal and he was subsequently elected to the ANC's National Executive Committee (NEC) and its National Working Committee (NWC). He was appointed as the ANC's Chief of Intelligence in 1991 and was elected as the secretary for the organisation's election commission in 1992. After the first fully democratic elections were held in South Africa in 1994, Lekota was elected as premier of the Free State province. He held this position until 1996.
Lekota subsequently served as the chairperson of the National Council of Provinces from 1997 to 1999, before being appointed Minister of Defence. He was also elected National Chairperson of the ANC in December 1997, a position which he still holds.
Lekota is married.
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| Minister of Defence (Mosiuoa Lekota) Deputy Minster of Defence (Mluleki George) Secretaries: Defence Secretariat (January Masilela) • Policy and Planning Division (Tsepe Motumi) Military Chiefs: Chief of the SANDF (Godfrey Ngwenya) • |
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| Administrators of Orange Free State (1910-1994) |
Ramsbottom • Wessels • Grobler • Wilcocks • Renseburg • Barnard • Fouché • du Plessis • Froneman • Wyk •van der Merwe • Botha • van der Watt |  |
| Premiers of Free State (1994-present) | Lekota • Matsepe-Casaburri • Direko • Marshoff | |
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| First Senate (1910-1981) | Reitz • van Heerden • Kerr • van Niekerk • Malan • Myburgh • Wessels • van Niekerk • Naudé • de Klerk • Viljoen • Kruger |
| Second Senate (1994-1997) | Coetsee |
| National Council of Provinces (1997-present) | Lekota • Pandor • Kgoali • Mahlangu |
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| pre-Apartheid (1910-1948) | Smuts • Mentz • Creswell • Pirow • Smuts (as Prime Minister) |
| Apartheid-era (1948-1994) | Erasmus • Fouché • Botha • Malan • Meyer • Louw • Coetsee |
| Post-Apartheid (1994-present) | Modise • Lekota |
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| President | Thabo Mbeki |
| Deputy President | Jacob Zuma (2004-2005) • Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka (2005-) |
| Ministers | Lulama Xingwana (Agriculture and Land Affairs) • Pallo Jordan (Arts and Culture) • Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri (Communications) • Ngconde Balfour (Correctional Services) • Mosiuoa Lekota (Defence) • Naledi Pandor (Education) • Marthinus van Schalkwyk (Environmental Affairs and Tourism) • Trevor Manuel (Finance) • Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma (Foreign Affairs) • Manto Tshabalala-Msimang (Health) • Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula (Home Affairs) • Lindiwe Sisulu (Housing) • Ronnie Kasrils (Intelligence Services) • Brigitte Mabandla (Justice and Constitutional Development) • Membathisi Mdladlana (Labour) • Patience Sonjica (Minerals and Energy) • Sydney Mufamadi (Provincial and Local Government) • Alex Erwin (Public Enterprises) • Geraldine Fraser-Moleketi (Public Service and Administration) • Thoko Didiza (Agriculture and Land Affairs) • Charles Nqakula (Safety and Security) • Mosibudi Mangena (Science and Technology) • Zola Skweyiya (Social Development) • Arnold Stofile (Sport and Recreation) • Essop Pahad (The Presidency) • Mandisi Mpahlwa (Trade and Industry) • Jeff Radebe (Transport) • Lindiwe Hendricks (Water Affairs and Forestry) |