Kgaogelo Lekgoro | |
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Member of the Gauteng Executive Council for Local Government and Housing | |
In office May 2009 –November 2010 | |
Premier | Nomvula Mokonyane |
Preceded by |
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Succeeded by | Humphrey Mmemezi |
Member of the Gauteng Executive Council for Social Development | |
In office March 2006 –May 2009 | |
Preceded by | Bob Mabaso |
Succeeded by | Qedani Mahlangu (for Health and Social Development) |
Personal details | |
Born | 11 October 1957 |
Citizenship | South Africa |
Political party | African National Congress |
Mpetjane Kgaogelo Lekgoro (born 11 October 1957) 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.
Lekgoro was born on 11 October 1957. [1] During apartheid,he was a member of the United Democratic Front in the PWV region that later became Gauteng province. [2] In the early 1990s,he was a member of the National Executive Committee of the ANC Youth League. [2]
He was a Member of Parliament from 1994 to 2006 and from 2003 [2] he chaired the National Assembly's Portfolio Committee on Communications. [3] On 23 March 2006,Mbhazima Shilowa,then the Premier of Gauteng,appointed him as Gauteng's Member of the Executive Council (MEC) for Social Development;he succeeded Bob Mabaso,who had vacated the position earlier in 2006 amid a sexual harassment scandal. [3] By that time he was also a member of the ANC's Provincial Executive Committee in Gauteng. [3]
He served as MEC for Social Development until 2009,throughout the rest of Shilowa's term and the brief tenure of Shilowa's successor,Paul Mashatile. [4] On 8 May 2009,pursuant to the 2009 general election,newly elected Premier Nomvula Mokonyane announced that Lekgoro would be MEC for Local Government and Housing in her new Executive Council. [5] [6] However,in a cabinet reshuffle announced on 2 November 2010,Mokonyane removed him from the Executive Council,appointing him instead as the head of the Gauteng Planning Commission in the Premier's office. [7]
In 2013,President Jacob Zuma appointed Lekgoro to his first diplomatic posting as South Africa's Ambassador to the United Arab Emirates. [8] He later served as the Ambassador to Vietnam. [9]
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