Lekgoro was born on 11 October 1957. During
apartheid, he was a member of the
United Democratic Front in the
PWV region that later became
Gauteng province. In the early 1990s, he was a member of the National Executive Committee of the
ANC Youth League. On 23 March 2006,
Mbhazima Shilowa, then the
Premier of Gauteng, appointed him as Gauteng's
Member of the Executive Council (MEC) for Social Development; he succeeded
Bob Mabaso, who had vacated the position earlier in 2006 amid a
sexual harassment scandal. On 8 May 2009, pursuant to the
2009 general election, newly elected Premier
Nomvula Mokonyane announced that Lekgoro would be MEC for Local Government and Housing in her new Executive Council. However, in a
cabinet reshuffle announced on 2 November 2010, Mokonyane removed him from the Executive Council, appointing him instead as the head of the Gauteng Planning Commission in the Premier's office. In 2013, President
Jacob Zuma appointed Lekgoro to his first diplomatic posting as South Africa's Ambassador to the United Arab Emirates. He later served as the Ambassador to Vietnam. == References ==