Greg Fredericks

Last updated

Greg Fredericks
Personal details
Born
Gregory Abraham Fredericks

1953/1954(age 68–69)
Citizenship South Africa
Political party African National Congress
Alma mater University of South Africa
University of Manchester

Gregory Abraham Fredericks (born 1953 or 1954) is a South African sports administrator, civil servant, and politician. He represented the African National Congress in the National Assembly during the first democratic Parliament and was later the chief executive officer of the Gauteng Cricket Board from 2013 to 2019.

Contents

Early life and education

Born in 1953 or 1954 in the Eastern Cape, [1] Fredericks qualified as a teacher at Dower Training College and also studied at the University of South Africa. [2] He completed his master's degree in education at the University of Manchester in 1992. [2]

Post-apartheid career

In the 1994 general election, Fredericks was elected to an ANC seat in the National Assembly, [3] though he did not complete the full legislative term in his seat. [4]

He later worked as a chief director in the Department of Education [2] and Department of Sport and Recreation; in the latter capacity, he was appointed in 2002 to Sport Minister Ngconde Balfour's inter-ministerial committee on transformation in cricket. [5] He was also involved in planning for the 2010 FIFA World Cup. [2]

In October 2013, Fredericks succeeded Cassim Docrat as chief executive officer of the Gauteng Cricket Board, owner of the Lions. [2] He held that position until October 2019, when he was succeeded by Jono Leaf-Wright. [1] [6]

Related Research Articles

David John Richardson is a South African former cricketer and the former CEO of the International Cricket Council.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Gareth Davies (rugby union, born 1955)</span> Wales and British and Irish Lions rugby union player

William Gareth Davies is a former Wales and British and Irish Lions international rugby union player and former chairman of the Welsh Rugby Union.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Mickey Arthur</span> South African cricketer and coach and currently head coach at Derbyshire county cricket club

John Michael Arthur is a South African-Australian cricket coach, commentator and former cricketer, who played in South African domestic cricket from 1986 to 2001. He has served as the head coach of the Derbyshire County Cricket Club since November 2021 and as the director of the Pakistan national cricket team since April 2023.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Temba Bavuma</span> South African cricketer

Temba Bavuma is a South African international cricketer who is the current captain of the South African cricket team in Tests and ODI cricket, and formerly captained in T20I. He is a right-handed batter and was the first black African cricketer to make a Test century for South Africa and the first to captain the side. Bavuma is one of three South African cricketers to score a century on ODI debut, scoring 113 runs against Ireland in September 2016.

Mathole Serofo Motshekga is a South African lawyer and politician who was elected to his third consecutive term as a Member of Parliament in the 2019 general election. He formerly represented his political party, the African National Congress (ANC), as the second Premier of Gauteng.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Parks Tau</span> South African politician

Mpho Franklyn Parks Tau is a South African politician who has been a Deputy Minister of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs since March 2023 and a Member of the National Assembly of South Africa since February 2023, representing the African National Congress. Before becoming a member of Parliament, Tau had been a Member of the Gauteng Provincial Legislature where he served in the Gauteng Executive Council as MEC for Economic Development from December 2020 to October 2022. Prior to that, he was Deputy Minister of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs between May 2019 and December 2020.

Shukri Conrad is a South African cricket coach and former player who was appointed Test coach of the South Africa national cricket team in 2023.

Ryan David Rickelton is a South African cricketer. He made his international debut for the South Africa cricket team on 31 March 2022. A left handed wicket-keeper batter, Rickelton represents Gauteng domestically.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Mondli Gungubele</span>

Mondli Gungubele is a South African politician, trade union leader and educator who is the current Minister of Communications and Digital Technologies and a member of the National Assembly of South Africa for the African National Congress. He previously served as Executive Mayor of the Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality (2010–2016), as Deputy Minister of Finance (2018–2019), as Chairperson of the Social Development Committee (2019–2021) and as Minister in the Presidency (2021–2023).

Ntombi Lentheng Mekgwe is a South African politician who has been Speaker of the Gauteng Provincial Legislature since 2014. Before that, she was a Member of the Executive Council (MEC) in the Gauteng provincial government from 2010 to 2014 and the third Mayor of Ekurhuleni from 2008 to 2010. She is a member of the African National Congress (ANC).

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Barbara Creecy</span> South African politician

Barbara Dallas Creecy is a South African politician and previous anti-apartheid activist. A member of the African National Congress, she is currently serving as Minister of Environment, Forestry and Fisheries, and as a Member of the National Assembly of South Africa. She previously served as a Member of the Gauteng Provincial Legislature, having been elected in 1994. In 2004, she was named Gauteng MEC for Sports, Recreation, Arts and Culture. She served until 2009 when she was appointed MEC for Education. Newly elected premier David Makhura moved Creecy to the Gauteng Finance portfolio in 2014.

Lebogang Isaac Maile is a South African politician currently serving as Gauteng's Member of the Executive Council (MEC) for Human Settlements and Infrastructure Development. A member of the African National Congress (ANC), he has served in the Gauteng Provincial Legislature since May 2009 and in the Gauteng Executive Council since 2010.

Bekizwe Simon "Bheki" Nkosi is a South African politician who current represents the African National Congress (ANC) as a Member of the National Assembly since 2019. An attorney by training, he was formerly a Member of the Gauteng Provincial Legislature from 1997 to 2012 and he served on the Gauteng Executive Council from 2009 to 2012. He was the deputy president of the ANC Youth League from 1994 to 1996.

Tshilidzi Bethuel Munyai is a South African politician who was elected as an African National Congress Member of the National Assembly of South Africa in 2019. In August 2021, Munyai served as the acting chairperson of the Portfolio Committee on Health. He resigned from Parliament in January 2023 and was subsequently sworn in as a member of the Gauteng Provincial Legislature.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Kgosientsho Ramokgopa</span> South African politician

Kgosientsho David "Sputla" Ramokgopa is a South African politician who is the Minister in the Presidency responsible for Electricity. He was the Mayor of Tshwane from 2010 to 2016. He was also a Member of the Executive Council in the Gauteng provincial government in 2019 and worked in the Presidency of South Africa as head of infrastructure from 2019 to 2023.

Gladstone Mandlenkosi "Mandla" Nkomfe is a South African politician who was Member of the Executive Council for Finance in the Gauteng provincial government from 2009 to 2014. From 1999 to 2014, he was a Member of the Gauteng Provincial Legislature, serving as the legislature's Chairperson of Committees and then as its Majority Chief Whip. He was also the Deputy Provincial Secretary of the Gauteng branch of his political party, the African National Congress, from 1998 to 2010.

Nandi Mayathula-Khoza is a South African politician who was a member of the Gauteng Executive Council from 2009 to 2019, most proximately as Member of the Executive Council for Social Development under Premier David Makhura from 2016 to 2019. She left the Gauteng Provincial Legislature in the 2019 general election and in 2021 was appointed chairperson of the board of South Africa's Central Drug Authority.

Mpetjane Kgaogelo Lekgoro is a South African politician and diplomat. Before his first appointment as South African Ambassador in 2013, he represented the African National Congress (ANC) in Parliament from 1994 to 2006 and as a Member of the Gauteng Executive Council from 2006 to 2010.

Xitlhangoma Mabasa, also known as Bob Mabaso, is a South African politician and former trade unionist from Gauteng. He represented the African National Congress (ANC) in the National Assembly from 2008 to 2019, serving the Gauteng constituency from 2009 onwards.

Sochayile Khanyile is a South African politician who has represented the African National Congress (ANC) in the Gauteng Provincial Legislature since 2014. He has chaired the legislature's Standing Committee on Public Accounts since 2019 and was previously the legislature's Majority Chief Whip from 2018 to 2019. A former ANC Youth League activist, he was a member of the ANC's Provincial Executive Committee in Gauteng between 1996 and 2018.

References

  1. 1 2 "Does incoming Central Gauteng Lions chief executive have the required skills?". Sunday Times. 30 August 2019. Retrieved 17 June 2023.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 "Greg Fredericks appointed new Gauteng Cricket Board CEO". Boxscore News. 6 September 2013. Retrieved 17 June 2023.
  3. South Africa: Campaign and Election Report April 26–29, 1994. International Republican Institute. 1994. Retrieved 13 April 2023 via Yumpu.
  4. "Members of the National Assembly". Parliament of South Africa. 3 June 1998. Archived from the original on 28 June 1998. Retrieved 12 April 2023.
  5. Lackay, Adrian (19 July 2002). "Balfour: I'm not convinced". News24. Retrieved 17 June 2023.
  6. "Central Gauteng Lions appoints new CEO". Sport. 19 August 2019. Retrieved 17 June 2023.