Mathole Serofo Motshekga (born 2 April 1949) is a retired South African politician and lawyer.
In September 1997, he was elected Provincial Chairperson of the ANC in Gauteng, and he succeeded Tokyo Sexwale as Premier in January 1998.
In subsequent years, Motshekga served as an ordinary Member of the Gauteng Provincial Legislature.
After joining the National Assembly in the 2009 general election, Motshekga was the Chief Whip of the Majority Party until June 2013, when he was demoted to an ordinary seat in Parliament.
[3] Upon his return to South Africa, Motshekga was appointed a senior lecturer at Unisa,[3] where he worked from 1984 to 1994.
[3][4] At the time of South Africa's first post-apartheid election in 1994, Motshekga was Deputy Provincial Chairperson of the ANC branch in the country's new Gauteng province.
[5] He held that position until September 1997, when ANC Provincial Chairperson Tokyo Sexwale resigned and Motshekga was elected to succeed him.
[18] At the ANC's 52nd National Conference in December 2007, Motshekga was elected to a five-year term on the ANC National Executive Committee (NEC), the party's top executive organ; by number of votes received, he ranked 53rd of the 80 candidates elected.
[1] By the time of the inauguration of Makobo Modjadji VI as Rain Queen in 2003, Motshekga was an adviser to the royal family of Limpopo's Balobedu people.
[32] After Makobo Modjadji died in 2005, Motshekga raised her only daughter, Princess Masalanabo, who at the time of the queen's death was still an infant.