Khabisi Mosunkutu

Khabisi Mosunkutu
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
PremierNomvula Mokonyane
Preceded byFiroz Cachalia
Succeeded byFaith Mazibuko
Member of the Gauteng Executive Council for Agriculture, Conservation and the Environment
In office
April 2004 – May 2009
Premier
Preceded byMary Metcalfe (for Agriculture, Conservation and Environment and Land Affairs)
Succeeded byNomantu Nkomo-Ralehoko (for Agriculture and Rural Development)
Member of the Gauteng Executive Council for Transport and Public Works
In office
June 1999 – April 2004
PremierMbhazima Shilowa
Preceded byJoyce Kgoali
Succeeded byIgnatius Jacobs (for Public Transport, Roads and Works)
Personal details
Born(1950-10-11)11 October 1950
Died24 December 2018(2018-12-24) (aged 68)
Johannesburg, Gauteng
CitizenshipSouth Africa
Political partyAfrican 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.