Party: | African National Congress |
Office1: | Member of the National Assembly |
Termstart1: | May 1994 |
Termend1: | June 1999 |
Citizenship: | South Africa |
Birth Date: | 27 August 1940 |
Office: | National Council of Provinces |
Termstart: | June 1999 |
Termend: | May 2009 |
Constituency Am: | North West |
Peter Moatshe (born 27 August 1940)[1] is a retired South African politician and Christian minister. He represented the African National Congress in Parliament from 1994 to 2009. He was a member of the South African Council of Churches during apartheid.[2]
Moatshe was elected to the National Assembly in the 1994 general election, South Africa's first post-apartheid elections.[3] After a single term in the National Assembly, he was elected to the National Council of Provinces after the 1999 general election; he represented the North West Province and served two terms in his seat.[4] [5] During the third democratic Parliament, Moatshe chaired the Select Committee on Land and Environmental Affairs, in which capacity he argued for accelerating land reform in South Africa.[6]