Pali Lehohla

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Pali Lehohla
former Statistician-General of South Africa
Statistician-General of South Africa
In office
1 March 2000 1 March 2017
Occupation
  • Politician
  • trade union leader
  • educator

Pali Lehohla (born 1 February 1963) is a South African politician and educator who was the former Statistician-General of South Africa [1] [2] [3] [4] from 2000 and the chair of Africa Symposium for Statistical Development (ASSD). He previously served as chair of the United Nations Statistics Commission, as well as Chair of Statistics Commission Africa. [5]

Early life and education

Lehohla was born on 1 February 1963. He has an honorary doctorate from the University of Stellenbosch, Certificate of Toponymy from University of Pretoria and a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Lesotho. [3] [6] In the early 1990s, he worked with United Nations Statistics Commission and chair for the Sub-Group on Harmonization of Statistics in Africa, as well as the chief advisor to the Monitoring and Evaluation Committee (MOC) of the 2008 Population and Housing Census of Sudan. [7]

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