Duma Moses Nkosi (7 June 1957 – 16 December 2021) was a South African politician who was the mayor of the

Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality The City of Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality is a metropolitan municipality that forms the local government of the East Rand region of Gauteng. The municipality itself is a large suburban region east of Johannesburg. The name ''Ekurhuleni'' m ...

from 2001 to 2008, succeeded by Lentheng Helen Mekgwe. He also served as a member of the

National Assembly of South Africa The National Assembly is the directly elected house of the Parliament of South Africa, located in Cape Town, Western Cape. It consists of four hundred members who are elected every five years using a party-list proportional representation syste ...

from Gauteng from 1994 to 2001 and again from 2019 till his death from Covid-19 in 2021. In 1998, Nkosi was called before the TRC to gain amnesty concerning his role as chair of the local ANC in

Thokoza Thokoza, formerly Tokoza, is a township in Ekurhuleni, Gauteng. Thokoza is at the location of the now-defunct Palmietfontein Airport. It is situated south east of Alberton, adjacent to Katlehong. Thokoza was the first black township which was es ...

(1990–1996) whose members had participated in the 22 February 1990 murder of a number of people. Nkosi died on 16 December 2021, at the age of 64.

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