Khabisi Mosunkutu | |
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Member of the Gauteng Provincial Legislature | |
In office 1995 – July 2011 | |
Member of the Gauteng Executive Council for Community Safety | |
In office May 2009 – November 2010 | |
Premier | Nomvula Mokonyane |
Preceded by | Firoz Cachalia |
Succeeded by | Faith Mazibuko |
Member of the Gauteng Executive Council for Agriculture, Conservation and the Environment | |
In office April 2004 – May 2009 | |
Premier | |
Preceded by | Mary Metcalfe (for Agriculture, Conservation and Environment and Land Affairs) |
Succeeded by | Nomantu Nkomo-Ralehoko (for Agriculture and Rural Development) |
Member of the Gauteng Executive Council for Transport and Public Works | |
In office June 1999 – April 2004 | |
Premier | Mbhazima Shilowa |
Preceded by | Joyce Kgoali |
Succeeded by | Ignatius Jacobs (for Public Transport, Roads and Works) |
Personal details | |
Born | 11 October 1950 |
Died | 24 December 2018 Johannesburg, Gauteng | (aged 68)
Citizenship | South Africa |
Political party | African National Congress |
Elias Khabisi Mosunkutu (11 October 1950 – 24 December 2018) was a South African politician who served in the Gauteng Executive Council from 1999 to 2010 and in the Gauteng Provincial Legislature from 1995 to 2011. He was a member of the African National Congress (ANC).
Before he joined the provincial legislature, Mosunkutu represented the ANC in Parliament from 1994 to 1995, and he was formerly an anti-apartheid activist in the Southern Transvaal, including as founding secretary-general and long-serving president of the Post and Telecommunication Workers' Association. He was Member of the Executive Council (MEC) for Transport and Public Works under Premier Mbhazima Shilowa from 1999 to 2004; MEC for Agriculture, Conservation and the Environment from under Shilowa and his successor, Paul Mashatile, from 2004 to 2009; and MEC for Community Safety under Nomvula Mokonyane from 2009 to 2010. He was fired by Mokonyane in November 2010 and resigned from the provincial legislature in July 2011.