Robin Vincent Carlisle is a South African politician who represented the Democratic Alliance in the

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between 2001 and 2014. He was the Provincial Minister of Transport and Public Works in the Western Cape Executive Council. He retired from political life in 2014. Carlisle became politically active in 1960 when he joined the Progressive Party, and he was later a leader of the

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. As a member of the Democratic Party, he represented the Wynberg constituency in the

apartheid Apartheid ( , especially South African English: , ; , ) was a system of institutionalised racial segregation that existed in South Africa and South West Africa (now Namibia) from 1948 to the early 1990s. It was characterised by an ...

-era

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between 1989 and 1994. He also co-founded ACTSTOP, an organization that opposed forced removals during apartheid.

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Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Democratic Alliance (South Africa) politicians Members of the Western Cape Provincial Parliament {{WesternCape-politician-stub