 After the end of apartheid era in 1994, he was appointed Deputy Minister of Tourism in the first democratically elected South African Parliament in the cabinet led by President Nelson Mandela.By the time of his death, Peter Mokaba had been appointed by the ANC to head the preparations for the 2004 national election campaign.In the book "Askari", by Jacob Dlamini, it is asserted that Mokaba was an apartheid spy at one point.