How did you come to join your political party and become an MP?
My journey in politics started when I was accepted into the Democratic Alliance Young Leaders Programme in 2007, and I graduated in 2008. My acceptance in into YLP made me realise how important it was for me ...
1. How did you come to join your political party and become an MP?
It has been a pretty long journey getting here, but I think my first real appreciation of what politics is really came into sharp focus for me when I was about 7 years old, and I ...
1. How did you come to join your political party and become an MP?
1. How did you come to join your political party and become an MP?
In 2010 I joined the Democratic Alliance upon return from the United Kingdom where I worked for 5 years. I decided that I wanted to be an active citizen and the Democratic Alliance really is the ...
1. How did you come to join your political party and become an MP?
My grandfather was a farm-worker, and upon reaching old age, he together with my grandmother and ten children was forcibly removed from the farm; after he dedicated his entire life to the farm-owner. This informed my ...
1. How did you come to join your political party and become an MP?
During the early 1980’s I served as a youth leader for the UDF in Newlands East, Durban. I came to know Christ as my personal Saviour in 1984 and ceased all political activities, giving my available ...
1. How did you come to join your political party and become an MP?
I joined the Democratic Alliance through a recommendation that was made to the Leader of the Party at the time from certain members of the agricultural sector because of my background knowledge of working in agriculture. ...
1. How did you come to join your political party and become an MP?
I joined the Democratic Alliance as a student leader at Wits University leading the DASO branch at the time simultaneously I was part of the DA’s young leaders program in which I learnt extensively about the ...
1.How did you come to join your political party and become an MP?
I have been a community activist for years. I joined the Democratic Alliance in 2011. I was a branch chair for Ward 29 from 2011 to 2013. In September 2013 I served as PR Cllr in Ward ...
1.How did you come to join your political party and become an MP?
My journey back into politics, after being involved in student politics, is unexpected. After finishing university, which coincided with the release of Madiba and the unbanning of the ANC, I had little involvement in party politics and ...
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