Dan Mofokeng

Dan Mofokeng (27 January 1960 – 28 April 2022) was a South African politician and businessman who was Gauteng's inaugural Member of the Executive Council for Housing from 1994 to 1999. He was a member of the African National Congress and rose to prominence during apartheid as a leader of the South African National Civic Organisation in the Transvaal. After he was dropped from the Gauteng Provincial Legislature in 1999, he pursued a career in business.

Career Mofokeng was born on 27 January 1960 and was from Katlehong in the former Transvaal. His father was a construction worker. According to the Mail & Guardian, he was strongly aligned to Motshekga in the factionalism of the Gauteng ANC of the period. Mofokeng's tenure in the Housing portfolio was controversial and the ANC dropped him from its party list in the 1999 general election.

He later pursued a career in business.

Personal life and death He was married to fellow ANC politician Jacqueline Mofokeng, In 2011, Mofokeng was charged in Pretoria's Domestic Violence Court in relation to an incident at their house in Irene, Pretoria in February 2010, while the couple were estranged and undertaking divorce proceedings. Jacqueline alleged that she had a protection order against him at the time, which she said he had contravened by storming into the house and physically assaulting her. to assault and contravention of a protection order, after various other charges were dropped. Mofokeng was acquitted on 9 February 2012.

Both his ex-wife and his stepdaughter died in April 2021. He died on 28 April 2022 in a Johannesburg hospital at the age of 62.