Salzwedel Ernest "Motsoko" Pheko (13 November 1930 – 19 April 2024) was a South African lawyer, author, historian, theologian, academic and politician.
Born to a wealthy rural family in Lesotho on 13 November 1930,[1] Pheko and his brother went to live in South Africa in the 1930s upon the sudden death of their parents.
Pheko served as a representative of the PAC to the United Nations in New York and Geneva, in addition to working in the UK, Zambia.
[2][3][4] Pheko was also founder and Chair of Tokoloho Development Association in South Africa, a trust which promotes research of indigenous knowledge of the African people prior to European colonisation, and publishes the results.
from the University of South Africa (UNISA), where he majored in Political Science and Systematic Theology, also reading Sociology and History.