Jacqueline Mofokeng

Jacqueline Motlagomang Mofokeng (25 October 195922 April 2021) was a South African politician. A member of the African National Congress, she served in the Gauteng Provincial Legislature from 1999 to 2019. In the 2019 national elections, she was elected to the National Assembly of South Africa.

Early life and education Mofokeng was born on 25 October 1959. She participated in the 1976 youth uprisings. She earned a personnel management diploma at Union College and an advanced personnel management diploma at the Institute of Vocational Studies. She held a public relations practitioner diploma and was registered at the Public Relations Institute of South Africa.

She obtained a bachelor's degree in human behaviour at Newport University and achieved a Business Management Diploma from the Credo Business College in Pretoria.

Parliamentary career Mofokeng stood as an ANC parliamentary candidate from Gauteng in the 2019 national elections, and was subsequently elected to the National Assembly and sworn in on 22 May 2019.

In parliament, she served on the Portfolio Committee on Justice and Correctional Services, the Joint Standing Committee on Intelligence, the Constitutional Review Committee, and the Portfolio Committee on Police. After the death of fellow ANC MP Hisamodien Mohamed in 2020, she took over as the whip of the Portfolio Committee on Justice and Correctional Services.

Death Mofokeng died due to COVID-19 complications at her home in Irene, Gauteng on 22 April 2021 during the COVID-19 pandemic in South Africa. Her death came a day after her daughter Thato had died from COVID-19. ANC chief whip Pemmy Majodina described Mofokeng as "an advocate and champion of women and children's rights".