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Dianne Kohler-Barnard
Dianne Kohler Barnard is a South African politician and former journalist, and a Member of Parliament of South Africa, Parliament for the Democratic Alliance (South Africa), Democratic Alliance (DA). In October 2015, she was #Controversy, expelled from the party by the DA Federal Executive. In December 2015, the decision was lifted on appeal to the DA's Federal Legal Commission. She was born in Port Elizabeth, and currently resides in KwaZulu-Natal, where she represents the Durban South constituency. Career in journalism Kohler Barnard spent 23 years working as a radio and print journalist. She ran the KwaZulu-Natal offices of SAfm and also presented/produced the station's afternoon news programme ''The Editors''. Kohler Barnard is also the former chairperson of the Broadcast, Electronic Media and Allied Workers' Union in KwaZulu-Natal, and was a founder member of the inaugural SABC HIV/Aids Committee. Politics Kohler Barnard moved to politics in response to increasing stat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Parliament Of South Africa
The Parliament of the Republic of South Africa is South Africa's legislature. It is located in Cape Town; the country's legislative capital city, capital. Under the present Constitution of South Africa, the bicameralism, bicameral Parliament comprises a National Assembly (South Africa), National Assembly and a National Council of Provinces. The current 28th South African Parliament, twenty-eighth Parliament was first convened on 14 June 2024. From 1910 to 1994, members of Parliament were elected chiefly by the South African Whites in South Africa, white minority. The first elections with universal suffrage were held in South African general election, 1994, 1994. Both chambers held their meetings in the Houses of Parliament, Cape Town that were built 1875–1884. A 2022 Parliament of South Africa fire, fire broke out within the buildings in early January 2022, destroying the session room of the National Assembly. It was decided that the National Assembly would temporarily m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Southern African Development Community
The Southern African Development Community (SADC) is an inter-governmental organization headquartered in Gaborone, Botswana. Goals The SADC's goal is to further regional socio-economic cooperation and integration as well as political and security cooperation among 16 countries in southern Africa. Although its primary objectives are development, economic growth, and poverty alleviation, peacekeeping has become increasingly important to the SADC. History The origins of SADC are in the 1960s and 1970s, when the leaders of majority-ruled countries and national liberation movements coordinated their political, diplomatic and military struggles to bring an end to colonial and white-minority rule in southern Africa. The immediate forerunner of the political and security cooperation leg of today's SADC was the informal Frontline States (FLS) grouping. It was formed in 1980. The Southern African Development Coordination Conference (SADCC) was the forerunner of the socio-economic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Members Of The National Assembly Of South Africa 2024–2029
Member may refer to: * Military jury, referred to as "Members" in military jargon * Element (mathematics), an object that belongs to a mathematical set * In object-oriented programming, a member of a class ** Field (computer science), entries in a database ** Member variable, a variable that is associated with a specific object * Limb (anatomy), an appendage of the human or animal body ** Euphemism for penis * Structural component of a truss, connected by nodes * User (computing), a person making use of a computing service, especially on the Internet * Member (geology), a component of a geological formation * Member of parliament * The Members, a British punk rock band * Meronymy, a semantic relationship in linguistics * Church membership, belonging to a local Christian congregation, a Christian denomination and the universal Church * Member, a participant in a club or learned society A learned society ( ; also scholarly, intellectual, or academic society) is an organizatio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1955 Births
Events January * January 3 – José Ramón Guizado becomes president of Panama. * January 17 – , the first Nuclear marine propulsion, nuclear-powered submarine, puts to sea for the first time, from Groton, Connecticut. * January 18–January 20, 20 – Battle of Yijiangshan Islands: The Chinese Communist People's Liberation Army seizes the islands from the Republic of China (Taiwan). * January 22 – In the United States, The Pentagon announces a plan to develop intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs), armed with nuclear weapons. * January 23 – The Sutton Coldfield rail crash kills 17, near Birmingham, England. * January 25 – The Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union announces the end of the war between the USSR and Germany, which began during World War II in 1941. * January 28 – The United States Congress authorizes President Dwight D. Eisenhower to use force to protect Taiwan from the People's Republic of China. February * February 10 – T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Democratic Alliance (South Africa) Politicians
Democratic Alliance may refer to: Current political parties *Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of Hong Kong * Democratic Alliance (Portugal, 2024) *Democratic Alliance (South Africa) *Democratic Alliance (Ukraine) * Democratic Alliance (Venezuela) *Democratic Alliance List, Palestine * Democratic Alliance Party (Haiti) *DEMOS (Montenegro) *National Democratic Alliance, India * Democratic Alliance of Nagaland, India * Singapore Democratic Alliance Defunct political parties or coalitions * British Columbia Democratic Alliance * Democratic Alliance (Hong Kong) * Democratic Alliance (Bulgaria) *Democratic Alliance of Chile * Democratic Alliance (Chile, 1983) * Democratic Alliance for Egypt *Democratic Alliance (Greece) * Democratic Alliance (Guinea-Bissau) * Democratic Alliance (Italy) * Democratic Alliance (Palestine) * Democratic Alliance (Philippines) * Democratic Alliance (Portugal, 1979) *Democratic Alliance (Quebec) * Democratic Alliance (Sweden) *Democratic Rep ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Living People
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Sydney Opperman
Sydney Edward Opperman (born 25 June 1942) is a retired South African politician from the Western Cape. He represented the Democratic Party and Democratic Alliance (DA) in the National Assembly from 1999 to 2009, gaining election to the Western Cape caucus in 1999 and 2004 2004 was designated as an International Year of Rice by the United Nations, and the International Year to Commemorate the Struggle Against Slavery and Its Abolition (by UNESCO). Events January * January 3 – Flash Airlines Flight 60 .... During his second term, Opperman was the DA's spokesman on public works and land affairs, in which capacity he spearheaded the party's opposition to the Expropriation Bill. In 2008, he protested the bill by staging a walkout from parliamentary public hearings on the legislation. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Opperman, Sydney Living people 1942 births 20th-century South African politicians Members of the National Assembly of South Africa 2004–2009 D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gareth Morgan (South African Politician)
Gareth Morgan (born 22 March 1977) is a South African politician and a former member of parliament with the opposition Democratic Alliance. He is a former Rhodes Scholar at Oxford, and previously worked as South Africa's Shadow Minister of Water and Environmental Affairs. He was South Africa's first carbon neutral Member of Parliament. He resigned from office in January 2013 to pursue a career in consulting., before joining the City of Cape Town as Principal Trade and Investment Officer in June 2015. Education Morgan matriculated from Westville Boys' High School in 1994 and completed a B.Com and political science honours degree at the University of Natal. He joined the Democratic Alliance's predecessor, the Democratic Party, in 1995—as a student activist. In 1999 he became the party's media officer in KwaZulu-Natal. After a brief stint as a high school teacher, Morgan read for a PPE degree and an M.Sc in Environmental Change and Management at Oxford—on a Rhodes Scholarship ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ryan Coetzee
Ryan Nicolas Coetzee (born 8 January 1973) is a South African politician and political strategist, who served as special adviser to Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Nick Clegg and was the 2015 General Election Director of Strategy at Liberal Democrat HQ. In 2016, he was director of strategy for the campaign for the UK to remain in the EU. He previously served as a Member of South Africa's Parliament between 2004 and 2008, as CEO of South Africa's official opposition party, the Democratic Alliance between 2004 and 2009, and as the party's general election campaign chief in 2006, 2009, and 2011. He served as chief adviser to Western Cape Premier Helen Zille between 2009 and 2012. Background Coetzee holds a Bachelor of Arts and a Higher Diploma in Education, both from the University of Cape Town. Career in politics South Africa In 1997 Coetzee was picked by DP leader Tony Leon to head up the party's parliamentary operations at the age of 24. Leon subsequently noted ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roy Jankielsohn
Roy Jankielsohn (born 3 December 1967) is a South African politician who has been the leader of the opposition in the Free State Provincial Legislature since 2014. He has been the provincial leader of the Democratic Alliance (DA) in the Free State since 2020. From 2000 to 2006, Jankielsohn represented the DA and Democratic Party in the National Assembly, where he was a member of Tony Leon's shadow cabinet. In December 2006, he joined the Free State Provincial Legislature as leader of the DA caucus, a position he has held since then. He also served an earlier term as DA provincial leader from 2006 to 2012. Early career and education Born 3 December 1967, Jankielsohn grew up on a farm near Steynsrus in the former Orange Free State. He holds a PhD in political studies from the University of the North West, and in December 2022, he completed a second PhD at the University of the Free State (UFS) – his sixth degree in total – with a dissertation on the governance of a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Masango
Suhla James Masango (born 2 September 1957) is a South African politician who represented the Democratic Alliance (DA) in the National Assembly and Mpumalanga Provincial Legislature between 2004 and 2019. Since 2021, he has been a local councillor for the DA in Mpumalanga's Govan Mbeki Municipality. Masango was a deputy chairperson of the DA Federal Council from November 2020 to April 2023 and is a former provincial leader of the party's Mpumalanga branch. Early political career Born on 2 September 1957, Masango joined the DA's forerunner, the Democratic Party, in 1994. He was a ward councillor in the Govan Mbeki Local Municipality from 2000 until 2004. During the same period, he was active in the DA's Mpumalanga branch: he was elected deputy provincial chairperson in 2000 and then rose to become provincial chairperson in 2004, a position he held for 11 years. Legislative career: 2004–2019 In the 2004 general election, Masango was elected to the National Assembly; he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
