The Democratic Alliance is a South African political party and the joint partner to the ruling African National Congress (ANC). The party is broadly centrist,and has been attributed both centre-left and centre-right policies. It is a member of Liberal International and the Africa Liberal Network. The DA traces its roots to the founding of the anti-apartheid Progressive Party in 1959,with many mergers and name changes between that time and the present. The DA has a variety of ideologically liberal tendencies,including neoliberalism,social liberalism,classical liberalism,and conservative liberalism.
The Western Cape Provincial Parliament (WCPP) is the legislature of the Western Cape province of South Africa. It is located at 7 Wale Street in Cape Town.
Jacobus Tertius Delport was a South African academic,lawyer,and politician.
David John Maynier is a South African politician who has been the Western Cape Provincial Minister of Education since May 2022 and a Member of the Western Cape Provincial Parliament since May 2019. He served as the Western Cape Provincial Minister of Finance and Economic Opportunities from May 2019 to May 2022. Maynier was a Member of Parliament from 2009 to 2019,where he was Shadow Minister of Finance from 2015 to 2019 and the Shadow Minister of Defence and Military Veterans from 2009 to 2015.
Suhla James Masango 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.
The Democratic Alliance held its 6th Federal Congress in Port Elizabeth,Eastern Cape from 9 May to 10 May 2015. After incumbent leader Helen Zille announced she would not seek reelection,the Congress became focused on the contest to succeed her.
Bennet Mzwenqaba Bhanga,known as Nqaba Bhanga,is a South African politician. He is the former Leader of the Official Opposition in the Eastern Cape Provincial Legislature,the former Provincial Leader of the Democratic Alliance (DA) in the Eastern Cape,a former Mayor of Nelson Mandela Bay,a former Member of the Mayoral Committee (MMC) for Human Settlements in the Nelson Mandela Bay Metropolitan Municipality,a former member of Parliament,and the DA's former Shadow Minister of Co-operative Governance and Traditional Affairs (COGTA).
Ivan Henry Meyer is a South African politician who has been serving as the Western Cape Provincial Minister of Agriculture,Economic Development and Tourism since 2019. He has held multiple positions in the provincial cabinet. Meyer was elected to the Western Cape Provincial Parliament in 2009. He has also been the Federal Chairperson of the Democratic Alliance (DA) since November 2020,a position he previously held in an acting capacity from November 2019 to November 2020. Meyer had served as the First Deputy Federal Chairperson of the DA from 2010 to 2012,and again from 2015 to 2019. He was also the provincial leader of the party in the Western Cape from 2012 to 2015.
Joseph Job McGluwa is a South African politician who sas the leader of the Democratic Alliance in the North West province from 2015 to 2020. He has been a member of the National Assembly since 16 August 2018. He was previously in the National Assembly from 2009 to 2015. McGluwa was a member of the North West Provincial Legislature from 2015 to 2018.
Thomas Charles Ravenscroft Walters is a South African politician of the Democratic Alliance (DA) who has been serving as a Member of the Western Cape Provincial Parliament since May 2024. Previously,he served as a Member of the Gauteng Provincial Legislature from 2009 to 2014 and then as a Member of the National Assembly of South Africa from 2014 until 2024. In 2012,Walters was elected Deputy Federal Council Chairperson of the Democratic Alliance,and has been deputising Federal Council Chairperson Helen Zille since 2019. He deputised James Selfe from 2012 to 2019. Walters was the party's Shadow Minister and Shadow Deputy Minister of Rural Development and Land Reform.
Refiloe Nt'sekhe is a South African politician who has been the Deputy Speaker of the Gauteng Provincial Legislature since 2024 and a Member of the Provincial Legislature since 2014. A member of the Democratic Alliance,she served as one of the party's deputy federal chairpersons between 2015 and 2023 and as one of the party's national spokespeople between 2015 and 2020.
Vicky Knoetze is a South African politician serving as a Member of the Eastern Cape Provincial Legislature for the Democratic Alliance. She was elected to the provincial legislature in May 2014.
Retief Odendaal is a South African politician who served as the Mayor of Nelson Mandela Bay from 21 September 2022 until his removal in a motion of no confidence on 26 May 2023. Before serving as mayor,he was a Member of the Provincial Legislature in the Eastern Cape for the Democratic Alliance and was the Shadow Member of the Executive Council (MEC) for Finance,Rural Development and Agrarian Reform from May 2019 until August 2022.
Andrew Grant Whitfield is a South African politician who has been the Shadow Minister of Police since 2019 and a Member of the National Assembly for the Democratic Alliance since 2019 and previously from 2014 to 2016. Having served as the provincial chairman of the DA in the Eastern Cape from 2017 to 2023,he is currently the provincial leader of the party and the leader of the party's Tsitsi-Kouga Constituency. Whitfield had previously served on the Nelson Mandela Bay city council and in the Eastern Cape Provincial Legislature.
Dirk Jan Stubbe is a South African politician serving as a Member of the National Assembly for the opposition Democratic Alliance since September 2020,and previously from September 2010 to May 2019. Prior to his tenure in the National Assembly,Stubbe was a Member of the Northern Cape Provincial Legislature.
Chantel King is a South African politician and educator. A member of the Democratic Alliance,she was sworn in as a Buffalo City councillor in July 2015. King became a Member of Parliament in November 2016. She then became Shadow Deputy Minister of Science and Technology in January 2017. In December 2020 King was appointed as Shadow Minister of Higher Education,Science and Technology.
Baxolile Babongile Nodada is a South African politician for the Democratic Alliance who has been a Member of Parliament since 2019,and the Shadow Minister of Basic Education and the Parliamentary Counsellor to the Leader of the Opposition in John Steenhuisen's Shadow Cabinet since 2020.
The 2019 Eastern Cape provincial election was held on 8 May 2019,concurrently with the 2019 South African general election,to elect the 63 members of the Eastern Cape Provincial Legislature. The election was won by the African National Congress,the incumbent governing party in the province.
Edward William Trent was a South African politician. A member of the Progressive Federal Party,he served in the Cape Provincial Council until 1989 when he was elected to the House of Assembly as a member of the Democratic Party. From 1994 to 2004,Trent served in the Eastern Cape Provincial Legislature. He was the first provincial leader of the Democratic Alliance between 2000 and 2002. Trent served in the National Assembly from 2004 until his retirement in 2009.
Leander Kruger is a South African politician and lawyer who has served as a member of the Eastern Cape Provincial Legislature since 2023,representing the Democratic Alliance,the official opposition in the province. He had previously served as a councillor of the Nelson Mandela Bay Metropolitan Municipality.
