Patricia de Lille is a South African politician who is the Leader of Good and a Member of the National Assembly. She was previously Mayor of Cape Town from 2011 to 2018, and Western Cape Provincial Minister of Social Development from 2010 to 2011. She founded and led the Independent Democrats (ID), a political party which she formed in 2003 during a floor-crossing window, after she broke away from the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC). In August 2010, the ID merged with the Democratic Alliance, South Africa's official opposition, and the party was officially dissolved in 2014. From 2015 to 2017, she was Provincial Leader of the Democratic Alliance in the Western Cape.
Petrus Jacobus "Peter" Marais is a South African politician who is currently serving as a Member of the Western Cape Provincial Parliament. He previously served as the 3rd Premier of the Western Cape between 2001 and 2002, and as the inaugural Mayor of Cape Town from 2000 until his dismissal in 2001. He has been a member of multiple political parties and movements. Marais joined the Freedom Front Plus in January 2019 and consequently became the party's Western Cape Premier candidate for the 2019 election. He returned to the Western Cape Provincial Parliament in May 2019.
Overstrand Municipality is a local municipality in the Western Cape province of South Africa. It is located along the Atlantic coast between Cape Town and Cape Agulhas, within the Overberg District Municipality. The principal towns in the municipality are Hermanus, Gansbaai and Kleinmond. As of 2011 it had a population of 80,432.
Alberto Manuel Andrade Carmona was a Peruvian politician, born in Lima and mayor of that city from 1996 to 2002.
The City of Cape Town is the metropolitan municipality which governs the city of Cape Town, South Africa and its suburbs and exurbs. As of the 2011 census, it had a population of 3,740,026.
Gerald Morkel was the Mayor of Cape Town and Premier of the Western Cape province in South Africa. He later served as a member of the Cape Town City Council for the Democratic Alliance until his retirement from politics in 2011.
Ajax Cape Town is a South African football club based in Parow that plays in the National First Division. Dutch Eredivisie club AFC Ajax is their parent club and acts as the majority shareholder.
The Mayor of Cape Town is the head of the local government of Cape Town, South Africa; currently that government takes the form of the City of Cape Town Metropolitan Municipality. In the past, the position of Mayor has varied between that of an executive mayor actively governing the city and that of a figurehead mayor with a mostly ceremonial role.
Cecil Phillip Clarke is a politician in Nova Scotia, Canada. He is the mayor of the Cape Breton Regional Municipality, and represented the riding of Cape Breton North in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly, from 2001 to 2011 as a Progressive Conservative.
Daniel "Dan" Plato is a South African politician and current Mayor of Cape Town since 6 November 2018. He previously held the position from May 2009 until June 2011. He served as a Member of the Western Cape Provincial Parliament and Western Cape Provincial Minister of Community Safety from 2011 to 2018.
Ian Douglas Neilson is a South African civil engineer and politician who currently serves as Deputy Mayor of Cape Town after having taken the office on 27 May 2009. He previously served as the Mayoral Committee Member for Finance from 2006 until 2016 and Executive Councillor for Safety and Health from 2000 until 2002.
Kobus Marais is a South African politician, currently a Member of Parliament with the Democratic Alliance, and the current Shadow Minister of Economic Development.
The following is a timeline of the history of Cape Town, in the Western Cape province of South Africa.
The Cape Town International Jazz Festival is an annual music festival held in Cape Town, South Africa. The first one was held in 2000 to 2005 and is recognized as the fourth largest jazz festival in the world and the largest jazz festival on the African continent. The festival was called the "Cape Town North Sea Jazz Festival" due to its association with the North Sea Jazz Festival in the Netherlands.
James Bisset was an architect and civil engineer of the Cape Colony, responsible for many of the Cape's early buildings and communications infrastructure. He was also Mayor of Wynberg, South Africa.
Edries Burton is a retired South African football (soccer) defender who played professionally for Santos Cape Town, Cape Town Spurs and AmaZulu.
Marius Llewellyn Fransman is a South African teacher and politician. He previously served as Leader of the Opposition in the Western Cape Provincial Parliament, Chairperson of the Western Cape African National Congress, Deputy Minister of International Relations and Cooperation, a Member of the National Assembly and a Member of the Western Cape Provincial Parliament.
General elections were held in South Africa on 8 May 2019 to elect a new National Assembly and provincial legislatures in each province. These were the sixth elections held since the end of apartheid in 1994 and determined who will become the next President of South Africa.
Good is a South African political party. The party was launched on 2 December 2018 by former Mayor of Cape Town, Patricia de Lille, and other disgruntled Democratic Alliance (DA) members.
The 2019 Western Cape Provincial Election were held on 8 May 2019 to elect the 6th Western Cape Provincial Parliament. It was the sixth provincial election held since the establishment of the provincial legislature in 1994, and also the second held since the death of Nelson Mandela.
