Thabo Lebethoa

Elder Thabo Lebethoa was sustained as a General Authority Seventy of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints at the April 2026 general conference. At the time of his call, he had been serving as a Sunday school teacher in the Florida 2nd Ward.

Elder Lebethoa has served in a number of Church callings, including bishop, high councilor, stake president, mission president, and Area Seventy.

Elder Lebethoa earned a bachelor of science degree in accounting from the University of South Africa in 1999. He began his career as an accountant and senior internal auditor for Investec Bank and credit manager for UTI South Africa. Since 2005 he has worked for the Church. He began as a coordinator for Seminaries and Institutes and went on to work as an area PEF coordinator. He spent the next several years in management positions, first as an area welfare manager, then as an area self-reliance manager, and finally as an area human resource manager. He then worked as an area director of Seminaries and Institutes of Religion from 2020 to 2024. Since 2024 he has worked as a director for temporal affairs in the Africa South Area.

Thabo Kula James Lebethoa was born in Soweto South Africa, on September 3, 1975. He married Andronica Gadifele Matlapeng in 2002. They are the parents of four children.