Mbhazima Shilowa Lynda Odendaal William Mothipa Madisha
Preceded by
post created
Minister of Defence
In office 26 June 1999 – 25 September 2008
President
Thabo Mbeki
Preceded by
Joe Modise
Succeeded by
Charles Nqakula
1st Chairperson of the National Council of Provinces
In office 6 February 1997 – 21 June 1999
Preceded by
Position established
Succeeded by
Naledi Pandor
1st Premier of the Free State
In office 7 May 1994 – 18 December 1996
Succeeded by
Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri
Personal details
Born
Mosiuoa Gerard Patrick Lekota
(1948-08-13) 13 August 1948 (age 75) Kroonstad, Union of South Africa
Political party
Congress of the People (2008–present)
Other political affiliations
African National Congress (1999–2008)
Spouse
Cynthia Lekota
Children
4
Occupation
Politician
Anti-apartheid activist
Nickname
Terror Lekota
Mosiuoa Gerard Patrick Lekota (born 13 August 1948) is a South African anti-Apartheid revolutionary for the African National Congress (ANC) who served jail time with Nelson Mandela from 1985 and who left the ANC to form the Congress of the People (Cope) splinter party in 2008. He has served as its President since 16 December 2008.[1]
Previously as a member of the African National Congress, under President Thabo Mbeki, he served in the Cabinet of South Africa as Minister of Defence from 17 June 1999 to 25 September 2008. His nickname Terror Lekota comes from his playing style on the soccer field. He was a leader of the United Democratic Front and a key defendant in the Delmas Treason Trial, 1985 to 1988.[2]
^Lekota on Mandela's death, polity.org.za. Retrieved 3 September 2023
^Shouting at the Crocodile, Rose Moss, Beacon Press, 1990
Mosiuoa Gerard Patrick Lekota (born 13 August 1948) is a South African anti-Apartheid revolutionary for the African National Congress (ANC) who served...
deputy president of the party, announced that leader MosiuoaLekota had been suspended. Lekota subsequently stated that his suspension was illegitimate...
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Bosasa donations to his CR17 ANC presidential campaign. COPE Leader MosiuoaLekota called for Ramaphosa to be impeached while DA Leader Mmusi Maimane proposed...
the 1999 general election. She succeeded inaugural Chairperson Mosioua Lekota when she assumed the office on 21 June 1999. She was the first woman to...
against the Agusta A129 Mangusta. During November 2007, Defence Minister MosiuoaLekota announced in Parliament, that the SAAF was to invest R962 million (about...
Council of Provinces in 1997. The inaugural holder of the position was MosiuoaLekota. He served as chairperson from 1997 to 1999. The chairperson is elected...
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party became divided by a succession battle between its two founders, MosiuoaLekota and Mbhazima Shilowa, Tabane was aligned to Shilowa. In November 2010...
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Thus there was no ballot and Ramaphosa was declared duly elected. MosiuoaLekota, leader of the Congress of the People party objected to the nomination...
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ammunition. A statement issued by the South African Defense Minister, MosiuoaLekota, however, stated that the gun had inexplicably traversed 90 degrees...
ANC to join the Congress of the People (COPE) breakaway party led by MosiuoaLekota and Mbhazima Shilowa. Ngonyama was Spokesperson and Public Secretary...
current rural safety plan was not addressing adequately. Defence Minister MosiuoaLekota said that the military commando personnel were "unwilling to serve a...
conviction of the "SASO nine", which included Aubrey Mokoape and Patrick Lekota. These were the most prominent among various public trials that gave a forum...
opposing candidate, MosiuoaLekota, stood on a slate aligned to outgoing president Thabo Mbeki; Mantashe received 2,378 votes to Lekota's 1,432. Among his...
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had "betrayed the South African revolution." He is cooperating with MosiuoaLekota of the Congress of the People party, and ousted COSATU general secretary...
the Vaal Triangle. The trial led to the conviction of Moses Chikane, MosiuoaLekota, Popo Molefe, and Tom Manthata on treason charges, and seven others...
behalf of 22 South African anti-apartheid activists. (See Simon Nkoli, MosiuoaLekota, etc.) Throughout these years she also regularly took part in anti-apartheid...
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