Anti-apartheid activist, academic and public servant. Has held several academic positions related to governance and administration. In early 1994, when Lucas Mangope was removed as head of the Bophuthatswana bantustan, Mokgoro, a Development Bank manager at the time, was appointed by the Transitional Executive Council as a co-administrator of the bantustan. After the 1994 election he became director-general of the North-West Province, which included much of Bophuthatswana.