Serake Leeuw

Serake Jacob Leeuw is a South African politician and former trade unionist. He represented the African National Congress in the National Assembly from 1994 to 2000, gaining election in 1994 and 1999. He was a member of the Standing Committee on Public Accounts, where Andrew Feinstein said he was one of Parliament's "leading lights".
Leeuw left the National Assembly after the 2000 local elections, on 6 December 2000, in order to become Mayor of Matjhabeng Local Municipality in the Free State. During his term as mayor, the municipality faced violent service delivery protests in 2005.
During apartheid, Leeuw was a founding member of the Post and Telecommunication Workers' Association and served as POTWA regional treasurer from 1986 to 1992. He is also a former regional chairperson of the Congress of South African Trade Unions in the Northern Cape and Free State region.