Lucas Mangope | |
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President of Bophuthatswana | |
In office 6 December 1977 – 13 March 1994[1] | |
Preceded by | None |
Succeeded by | None |
Chief Minister of Bophuhtatswana | |
In office 1 June 1972 – 6 December 1977 | |
Chief Councillor of Tswanaland | |
In office c. 1968 – 1 June 1972 | |
Personal details | |
Born | Motswedi, Transvaal, South Africa[2] | 27 December 1923
Died | 18 January 2018 | (aged 94)
Spouse(s) | Leah (deceased) |
Kgosi Lucas Manyane Mangope (27 December 1923[3] – 18 January 2018)[4] was a South African politician. He is the former leader of the Bantustan of Bophuthatswana and founder and former leader of the United Christian Democratic Party, a minor political party based in the North West of South Africa.
On 1 May 1971, Mangope became Chief Minister of the Bophuthatswana Legislative Assembly and retained his post following the first Bophuthatswana elections on 4 October 1972. Initially leader of the Bophuthatswana National Party, Mangope left the party following what was officially referred to as 'internal strife' and formed the Bophuthatswana Democratic Party, which then became the governing party. He became President in 1977.
In 1988 he was briefly overthrown by members of a military police unit, and was reinstated following intervention by the South African Defence Force.
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