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Lennox Sebe

Chief minister and first president of Ciskei (1926–1994)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 2, 2026
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Lennox Leslie Wongama Ngweyesizwe Sebe was the chief minister of the Xhosa bantustan of Ciskei after its self-rule in 1972, and the nominally independent country's first president from 1983. He was the Chief of the AmaKhambashe Tribal Authority and his praise name (isikhahlelo) was Ngweyesizwe.

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“Lennox Sebe” enters the record as chief minister and first president of Ciskei (1926–1994). Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Lennox, Sebe and Chief can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from “Lennox Sebe” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.