Leonard Ramatlakane is the former Minister of Community Safety in the Western Cape province

Western Cape

The Western Cape is a province in the south west of South Africa. The capital is Cape Town. Prior to 1994, the region that now forms the Western Cape was part of the much larger Cape Province...

 of South Africa

South Africa

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. He also served as the acting Premier briefly after Marthinus Van Schalkwyk

Marthinus van Schalkwyk

Marthinus Christoffel Johannes van Schalkwyk is the Minister of Tourism in the Cabinet of South Africa. Formerly both Premier of the Western Cape and Leader of the Opposition in the Parliament of South Africa, he was the leader of the New National Party from its inception on 8 September 1997 until...

 resigned in 2004.

L Ramatlakane resigned after the Premier Rasool was fired on 25 July 2008; he resigned as Community Safety MEC on July 31, 2008, making the way for the new Premier, Lynne Brown

Lynne Brown

Lynne Brown is the former Premier of the Western Cape province in South Africa. She was born in Cape Town on 26 September 1961 and grew up in Mitchell's Plain. She was appointed to the post following the resignation of Ebrahim Rasool in July 2008. Previously, she was Minister for Economic...

, to appoint her own MECs.