Lionel Mtshali

Lionel Mtshali
Premier of KwaZulu-Natal
In office
10 February 1999 – 23 April 2004
Preceded byBen Ngubane
Succeeded byS'bu Ndebele
Minister of Arts, Culture, Science and Technology
In office
September 1996 – February 1999
Preceded byBen Ngubane
Succeeded byBen Ngubane
Member of the National Assembly
In office
1994–1999
Personal details
Born
Lionel Percival Hercules Mbeki Mtshali

(1935-11-07)7 November 1935
Vryheid, Zululand
South Africa
Died13 December 2015(2015-12-13) (aged 80)
Durban, KwaZulu-Natal
Political partyInkatha Freedom Party
SpouseDaphne
Children4
Alma materUniversity of the Free State

Lionel Percival Hercules Mbeki Mtshali (7 November 1935 – 13 December 2015) was a South African politician who was Premier of KwaZulu-Natal from 1999 to 2004. He was known for unilaterally ordering the expansion of the province's antiretrovirals programme during the HIV/AIDS epidemic, in defiance of the policy of the national government under President Thabo Mbeki. A founding member and former chairperson of the Inkatha Freedom Party, Mtshali was also national Minister of Arts, Culture, Science and Technology in the government of President Nelson Mandela from 1996 to 1999.