List of leaders of the TBVC states
Heads of state and government

List of leaders of the TBVC states

Section Title: Heads of state and government
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Tenure	Portrait	Incumbent	Affiliation	Notes

Chief Executive Councillor

1 January 1969 to 1 August 1972	Thandatha Jongilizwe Mabandla	CNP	Ciskei Territorial Authority

Chief Ministers

1 August 1972 to 21 May 1973	Thandatha Jongilizwe Mabandla	CNP

21 May 1973 to June 1975	Lennox Sebe	CNIP	Gained power in the 1973 election; 1st term

June 1975 to 24 October 1975	Charles Sebe	CDF (military)	Brother of Lennox Sebe; acting

24 October 1975 to 4 December 1981	Lennox Sebe	CNIP	Proclaimed independence following the 1980 referendum; 2nd term

President

4 December 1981 to 4 March 1990	Lennox Sebe	CNIP	Declared President for life in 1983; deposed in a coup d'état

Chairman of the Military Committee and of the Council of State

4 March 1990 to 22 March 1994	Oupa Gqozo	CDF (military) ADP (from 1991)	Resigned

Administrators (Transitional Executive Council)

23 March 1994 to 26 April 1994	Pieter van Rensburg Goosen

Bongani Blessing Finca

Sentence(s)

Lennox Sebe was chief minister and the country's first president.

final_sentence: Lennox Sebe was chief minister and the country's first president.