Get to know Andrew Bateman

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

I was involved with another party between 2000 and 2007. I stood twice as Ward Councillor without success and served on its Provincial Executive Committee. 15 years later I re-entered the political ...

Get to Know Andisiwe Kumbaca

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

I am an ANC youth league National Working Committee and National Executive Committee Member. I am also a former ANCYL Dr WB Rubusana Regional Executive Member, a former Branch Secretary of the ...

Get to know Mlondi Mveli Mdluli

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

My background in economics has been the driving force behind my career and political aspirations. With a strong foundation in economics, I have always been passionate about using my expertise to address ...

Get to know Elmarie Linde

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

My political career started on 1 June 2002 when I became a Proportional Councillor (PR) in the City of Tshwane, Gauteng. Before that, I was a journalist at a Caxton Newspaper, ...

Ms Tsholofelo Bodlani

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 ...

Get To Know Traverse Le Goff

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 ...

Get To Know Yoliswa Yako

1. How did you come to join your political party and become an MP?

  • I was working for a corporate bank in 2013, when I came across The Founding Manifesto of the EFF. That was a turning point in my life as I had become severely despondent with the way ...

Get To Know Anna Maria (Marina) Van Zyl

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 ...

Get To Know Alvin Botes

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 ...

Get To Know Wayne Thring

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 ...

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