What is your political background?

My involvement started whilst I was the chairperson of the Business Chamber when I became active in DA events and branch meetings. From there I was elected in the municipal Council and then became the mayor. The DA stands for non-racialism and reconciliation and I ...

What is your political background?

I accidentally met politics as I am from a family where sharing and caring was important together communal assistance. The driver of all this was my mother who was the pillar in our home unfortunately she died when I was 16. My mother was a ...

What is your Political background?

My first involvement in politics was in the 2000 election and I was still a school kid at that time and my main task was to do all the menial work of assisting in the elections. I was also involved in politics as a student ...

What is your political background?

I got involved in politics when I was 16 years old and still at school. I became interested in politics from reading the newspapers and realised that liberal democratic views made a lot of sense as opposed to the situation where one people had rights ...

What is your political background? I got involved in politics when I was still a student at university in 1978. I differed from the National Party or the governing party at that stage and I decided I needed to get involved in politics. In 1987, I participated in the elections ...

Question 1: What is your political background? How did you come to join your political party and become an MP?

My first encounter with politics was at university where I was elected to the Student Representatives Council (SRC) of the Rand Afrikaans University (today University of Johannesburg). My husband and ...

What is your political background? I did not come into politics until two years ago. I was the president of the Cape Chamber of Commerce and Industry and no one was allowed to be politically affiliated as a member of the Chamber. At university I studied political science and two ...

What is your political background? I have always been involved in politics from a very young age. I went to university in 1989 and that was the stage in our country when Mr De Klerk started unbanning all political parties like the ANC. It was interesting to get involved in ...

What is your political background and what attracted you to your political party?

I joined the IFP in 1978 when I was still in school. I was mainly influenced by my father. who at the time was working with the IFP. He instilled the IFP philosophy and what the party ...

What is your political background? I went to a high school that was very politically inclined and I was heavily involved in political debates and community youth movements to fight the apartheid regime. I then left the country to study abroad in Saudi Arabia where there were also anti-apartheid movements ...