Mpho Lekgoro

Mpho Morepye Sephwe Lekgoro (born 1964 or 1965) is a South African politician who represented the African National Congress (ANC) in the National Assembly from 1999 to 2007. He was formerly an ANC Youth League activist.

Mpho Lekgoro
Member of the National Assembly
In office June 1999 – 1 August 2007
Personal details
Born	1964 or 1965 (age 60–61)
Citizenship	South Africa
Political party	African National Congress

Anti-apartheid activism

Lekgoro was born in 1964 or 1965.^[1] He was a member of the United Democratic Front and South African Youth Congress in the 1980s and was detained for his anti-apartheid activism.^[1] He made international news in March 1989, aged 24, when he and three other young detainees escaped police custody and took refuge in the West German Embassy in Pretoria; they escaped from Hillbrow Hospital, where they had been receiving treatment for starvation after participating in a nationwide hunger strike by political detainees.^[1] The West German Embassy allowed them to stay.^[2] From 1994 to 1996, he was secretary-general of the ANC Youth League under league president Lulu Johnson, with Febe Potgieter as his deputy.^[3][4]

Parliament: 1999–2007

Lekgoro served in the post-apartheid Parliament of South Africa from 1999 to 2007, gaining election to the National Assembly in 1999^[5] and 2004.^[6] During his second term he served as spokesperson for the ANC's parliamentary caucus.^[7] He resigned from Parliament on 1 August 2007^[8] and was replaced as spokesperson by Khotso Khumalo.^[9]