Gregory Abraham Fredericks (born 1953 or 1954) is a South African sports administrator, civil servant, and politician.
Born in 1953 or 1954 in the Eastern Cape,[1] Fredericks qualified as a teacher at Dower Training College and also studied at the University of South Africa.
[2] He completed his master's degree in education at the University of Manchester in 1992.
[4] He later worked as a chief director in the Department of Education[2] and Department of Sport and Recreation; in the latter capacity, he was appointed in 2002 to Sport Minister Ngconde Balfour's inter-ministerial committee on transformation in cricket.
[2] In October 2013, Fredericks succeeded Cassim Docrat as chief executive officer of the Gauteng Cricket Board, owner of the Lions.