Liezl van der Merwe (IFP)

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What is your political background and what attracted you to your political party? From age 10, I took a keen interest in politics. During the 80s, at the height of South Africa’s struggle against apartheid, I read everything I could find about the leaders of our struggle. It was during ...

Ms Terri Stander (DA)

Terri Stander

What is your political background? I got involved in politics when I got employed by the Central District Municipality (CDM) of the North West in 2006 as a human resources officer. Councillor Gondwe of the ANC at the time approached me to join the ANC and I joined. Unfortunately since ...

Ms Girly Nobanda (ANC)

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What is your political background? How did you come to join your political party and become an MP? I had always been politically inclined in that I attended ANC community meetings. I was then officially recruited by Mr Leslie Plaatjies in 1997. At the time I was attending Barolong Secondary ...

Adv Bongani Bongo (ANC)

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

My activism started when I was a learner at Dennilton in 1995 where only the ANC seemed to be concerned with the abject poverty we grew up in. It flourished when I ...

Ms Fezeka Loliwe (ANC)

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What is your political background? How did you come to join your political party and become an MP? My parents were born and raised on a farm and I listened to their stories of their upbringing and it ignited the desire for political activism. My activism became entrenched when I ...

Tsepo Mhlongo (DA)

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What is your political background? How did you come to join your political party and become an MP? I have a long history of school leadership involvement spanning almost three decades. I began by joining the SRC at Matseliso Secondary while a matric student. The SRC was a political student ...

Mr Choloane David Matsepe (DA)

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What is your political background? How did you come to join your political party and become an MP? I started political life in 1995 after the first national elections. At the time I was in Sekhukhune, Limpopo. I became a member of the then New National Party (NNP) because in ...

Mr Werner Horn (DA)

Werner Horn

What is your political background? I became involved with the DA from as far back as 2005. In 2006 I was elected a ward councillor in Mangaung, Bloemfontein in the Free State. I first served in the infrastructure portfolio committee in the municipal council and in 2009 I was elected ...

Mr Sbusiso Radebe (ANC)

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What is your political background? How did you come to join your political party and become an MP? Both my parents were political activists. My mother grew up in Lembede Street in Orlando West in Soweto. Lembede Street is just a street above Ngakane Street where Nelson and Winnie Mandela ...

Ms Tarnia Baker (DA)

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What is your political background? How did you come to join your political party and become an MP? I got involved with the Democratic Alliance in 2010 as a volunteer and loved it. One thing led to another and in the 2011 local elections I stood as a ward candidate, ...

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