Aubrey Mokoena | |
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| Member of the National Assembly | |
| In office 26 November 2009 – 6 May 2014 | |
| Constituency | Gauteng |
| In office May 1994 – April 2009 | |
| Constituency | Gauteng |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 12 April 1948 Orlando West, Transvaal Union of South Africa |
| Died | 12 July 2021 (aged 73) |
| Political party | African National Congress |
| Alma mater | University of the North University of South Africa |
Aubrey Dundubela Mokoena (12 April 1948 – 12 July 2021) was a South African politician and former anti-apartheid activist. He represented the African National Congress (ANC) in the National Assembly from 1994 to 2014, excepting a brief hiatus in 2009. He served the Gauteng constituency and chaired the Portfolio Committee on Home Affairs from 1999 to 2002.
Born in Soweto, Mokoena rose to prominence during apartheid as a Black Consciousness activist at Turfloop, where he was a leader in the South African Students' Organisation and student representative council during the student protests of 1972. During the 1980s, he became involved in the United Democratic Front of the Southern Transvaal, in which capacity he was a leading member of the Release Mandela campaign and Winnie Mandela Crisis Committee. He was also a defendant in the Pietermaritzburg Treason Trial of 1985.