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Leonard Jones Basson (born 8 April 1960) is a South African politician, a Member of Parliament (MP) for the Democratic Alliance and the DA's provincial leader in the North West. Before being elected unopposed to this position on 21 November 2020, Basson had served as the deputy provincial leader from 2017 to 2020. He has held various posts in the Official Opposition Shadow Cabinet of South Africa. He served as the Shadow Deputy Minister of Water and Sanitation between 2014 and 2017, as the Shadow Minister of Water and Sanitation from 2017 to 2019, and as the Shadow Minister of Human Settlements, Water and Sanitation from 2019 to 2020. Basson has been the Shadow Minister of Water & Sanitation since 2020.