Khabisi Mosunkutu
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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 (aged 68) |
| Citizenship | South Africa |
| 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.
Mosunkutu was born on 11 October 1950 and grew up in Pimville, Soweto in the former Transvaal, now part of Gauteng province.[1] He matriculated at Musi High School and qualified as a telecommunications technician through the state technical college at the Department of Post and Telecommunications, where he went on to work.[1] He was a founding member and inaugural secretary-general of the Post and Telecommunication Workers' Association (POTWA), the first trade union established to represent the department's employees. He subsequently served several terms, until 1994, as president of POTWA, which affiliated to the Congress of South African Trade Unions.[1] He was also active in other anti-apartheid organisations, including the Soweto Civic Association, the United Democratic Front, and the internal underground of the African National Congress (ANC) and its military wing, Umkhonto weSizwe.[2]