Athol trollip

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Athol trollip

Roland Athol Price Trollip (born March 12, 1964 in Bedford , Cape Province ) is a former South African politician ( Democratic Alliance ). He was opposition leader in the National Assembly from 2009 to 2011 and was elected mayor of Nelson Mandela Bay Metropolitan Parish in 2016 . In August 2018, he was overthrown by a vote of no confidence.

Life

Trollip grew up with two sisters on the Mount Prospect farm in the Eastern Cape Province. His grandfather, Athol Trollip Sr., was a United Party MP . Trollip learned to speak isiXhosa as a child . He went up to his Matric 1981, the boarding Woodridge College and then studied for a while Agricultural Management at the University of Natal in Pietermaritzburg . There he first became politically active as an opponent of apartheid , but soon moved back to the farm. He initially ran the farm in the sixth generation and traveled to Australia , New Zealand and Scotland to learn about new farming methods. However, when he entered politics, he sold the farm.

In 1980 Trollip joined what was then the Progressive Federal Party (PFP). In 1995 he became a councilor in the Amathole district for the successor Democratic Party (DP) . In 1998 he was promoted to Provincial Chairperson of the DP in the Eastern Cape Province , and in 1999 he entered the Provincial Legislature . After merging with other parties to form the Democratic Alliance (DA), he became their chairman in the Eastern Cape Province in 2002. In 2007 he was defeated by Helen Zille in the election for party chairman. After the 2009 elections , he moved into the National Assembly, where he prevailed against Ryan Coetzee in the election as opposition leader. In October 2011, however, he was defeated by Lindiwe Mazibuko in a fight vote. In 2013 he left the National Assembly and became active again in the Eastern Cape.

In the 2014 elections he was the DA's candidate for the office of prime minister of the province, where he was defeated by the candidate of the African National Congress (ANC). On April 13, 2015, he was nominated as a candidate for mayor of Nelson Mandela Bay. In the local elections in 2016 , the DA became the strongest party there for the first time, but failed to gain an absolute majority. Trollip was elected with the support of several smaller parties, replacing Danny Jordaan (ANC). In March 2018, a vote of no confidence against Trollip failed before the vote. After another vote of no confidence, he was replaced on August 27, 2018 by Mongameli Bobani ( United Democratic Movement ), who relied primarily on the ANC. Trollip was DA's Federal Chairman until he resigned on October 23, 2019. Previously, he was defeated by former party leader Helen Zille in the election of chairperson of the Federal Council .

Trollip has two children. He married in 2016 for the second time and lives in the district of Richmond Hill in Port Elizabeth .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Athol Trollip's 'love' for isiXhosa language. citizen.co.za, July 8, 2016, accessed November 9, 2016
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g Portrait on the Democratic Alliance website (English; archive version from 2016)
  3. ↑ Trollip formally Enters race for DA leadership. Mail & Guardian, January 11, 2007, accessed February 8, 2019
  4. ^ DA-led multiparty agreement reached in Nelson Mandela Bay. timeslive.co.za, August 17, 2016, accessed November 9, 2016
  5. ^ Meeting for vote-of-no-confidence in Trollip collapses. Mail & Guardian of March 29, 2018 (English), accessed March 30, 2018
  6. ↑ Janine Trollip. ( Memento from March 30, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) heraldlive.co.za (English)
personal data
SURNAME Trollip, Athol
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Trollip, Roland Athol Price (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION South African politician (Democratic Alliance)
DATE OF BIRTH March 12, 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Bedford , Cape Province