Peter Ishmael Rocky Malebana-Metsing (23 August 1949 – 23 November 2016) was a South African politician who was a member of the

African National Congress The African National Congress (ANC) is a Social democracy, social-democratic political party in Republic of South Africa, South Africa. A liberation movement known for its opposition to apartheid, it has governed the country since 1994, when ...

in the 1990s. He was born in

Rustenburg Rustenburg (; , Afrikaans and Dutch: ''City of Rest'') is a city at the foot of the Magaliesberg mountain range. Rustenburg is the most populous city in North West province, South Africa (549,575 in 2011 and 626,522 in the 2016 census). In 2017 ...

. In 1988, a coup ousted

Lucas Mangope Kgosi Lucas Manyane Mangope (27 December 1923 – 18 January 2018) was the leader of the Bantustan (homeland) of Bophuthatswana. The territory he ruled over was distributed between the Orange Free State – what is now Free State – and North W ...

, the president of

Bophuthatswana Bophuthatswana (, meaning "gathering of the Tswana people"), officially the Republic of Bophuthatswana ( tn, Riphaboliki ya Bophuthatswana; af, Republiek van Bophuthatswana), was a Bantustan (also known as "Homeland"; an area set aside for mem ...

, and installed Malebane-Metsing, who at the time was leader of the Progressive People's Party, as president. Fifteen hours later, the South African government sent troops in and reinstated Mangope. In December 1991 Rocky Malebana-Metsing was elected into the National Executive Committee (NEC) of the ANC. After the 1994 elections, he was appointed MEC for Agriculture in

North West Province North West is a province of South Africa. Its capital is Mahikeng. The province is located to the west of the major population centre of Gauteng and south of Botswana. History North West was incorporated after the end of Apartheid in 1994, an ...

of South Africa, but he resigned from the ANC, and consequently lost his seat on 16 May 1995, after political differences. In 2006 he made his comeback into mainstream politics. He was elected into the Rustenburg local municipality, where he held several strategic positions. In 2014 he was removed from the MMC position of Infrastructure in Rustenburg Municipality His son Rycroft Khumo Malebane-Metsing was elected North West province treasurer of the Young Communist League, but was involved in a motor vehicle accident a few hours later. In June 2016 Malebane-Metsing left the ANC once again after serious impositions of leaders against the choices of people towards 3 August upcoming local municipality elections. He joined the Forum for Service Delivery, and stood unsuccessfully as mayoral candidate for Rustenburg. He died on 23 November 2016, aged 67.

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