Patricia de Lille

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Patricia de Lille

Patricia de Lille (born February 17, 1951 in Beaufort West ) is a South African politician. From 2011 to 2018 she was mayor of the metropolitan municipality City of Cape Town , usually referred to as Cape Town. She was the leader of the Independent Democrats (ID), a South African political party that was founded in 2003 as a spin-off from the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) and became part of the Democratic Alliance (DA). Since the ID was only dissolved in 2014, just before the parliamentary elections , Patricia de Lille belonged to both parties for several years. In May 2018 she was expelled from the DA, so that she lost the office of mayor. However, her exclusion from the DA was lifted a week later by the Court of Appeal of the Western Cape Province, which allowed de Lille to return to office for the time being. At the end of June 2018, the court confirmed that de Lille was a DA member and therefore mayor. On October 31, 2018, however, de Lille resigned as mayor and left the Democratic Alliance. On December 2, 2018, she founded the Good party . On May 29, 2019, President Cyril Ramaphosa announced that de Lille would join his cabinet as Minister for Public Works and Infrastructure.

Life

Patricia de Lille grew up with six siblings. She worked as a laboratory technician in Cape Town and joined the South African Chemical Workers Union, where she was elected to its board in 1983. In 1988 she was elected Vice President of the National Council of Trade Unions (NACTU) . This was the highest position a woman held in the union movement at the time.

In the 1990s she became a board member of the Pan Africanist Congress and headed its delegation in the negotiations on the South African constitution, which had preceded the first democratic elections in 1994. From 1994 to 1999 she chaired the Parliament's Transport Committee and was also Chief Whip of the Pan Africanist Congress. In 1999 she uncovered the SANDF Arms Deal Scandal - it was about corruption in government circles in the procurement of weapons for the South African National Defense Force . In 2003 she was the first South African woman to found a political party, the Independent Democrats, which already had several members in the National Assembly when it was founded by Floor Crossing . On August 15, 2010, Patricia de Lille announced the merger of ID and DA. On June 1, 2011, she became Mayor of Cape Town , succeeding Dan Plato.

In September 2017, against the will of her fellow party member Jean-Pierre Smith, she restricted the tasks of the local special investigation unit. She was then accused of using public funds to upgrade her private rooms. An investigation by the South African auditor-general concluded that she had acted lawfully. Nevertheless, the DA accused her of misconduct , including intimidation and criminal behavior. On February 15, 2018, she survived a vote of no confidence in her party in the city council with a majority of one vote. On May 8, 2018, she was excluded from the DA after an internal vote. According to the DA, she lost her mayor's office and was briefly replaced by her deputy Ian Neilson (DA). On June 27, 2018, she was confirmed as DA member and mayor by order of the Western Cape High Court . In August 2018, she agreed to give up her mayor's office by the end of October of that year. In October 2018, new information came to light that there was no evidence of wrongdoing and that De Lille could therefore remain in office. However, on October 31, she resigned as Mayor of Cape Town and on November 6, 2018, her predecessor Dan Plato took office again. On December 2, 2018, she founded the Good party in Johannesburg , which stood in the upcoming parliamentary elections in May 2019 and won two mandates. De Lille was then accepted into the Ramaphosa II cabinet , although she was not on the ANC's list.

De Lille is married. She has two children with her husband Edwin de Lille.

Works

  • with Craig Kesson: View from City Hall: reflections on governing Cape Town. Jonathan Ball, Johannesburg 2017, ISBN 978-1868427864 .

literature

Web links

Commons : Patricia de Lille  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ iol.co.za: De Lille's candidacy 'assured anyway' , March 11, 2011, last accessed May 10, 2013
  2. ↑ Tutu laments the loss of de Lille to the city of Cape Town. news24.com from May 9, 2018, accessed on May 9, 2018
  3. ↑ http://allafrica.com/stories/201805150782.html South Africa: Embattled Cape Town Mayor Wins Court Battle to Stay in Office. allafrica.com of May 15, 2018 (English), accessed May 25, 2018.
  4. ↑ Bongo Dlulane: Patricia de Lille names her new party 'Good'. ewn.co.za on December 2, 2018, accessed January 28, 2019
  5. ↑ Patricia de Lille: 'My husband is my rock'. sowetanlive.co.za, May 14, 2018, accessed May 14, 2018
  6. ↑ a b Patricia de Lille at africansuccess.org (English), accessed on May 10, 2018
  7. ↑ iafrica.com: Zille and de Lille unite ( Memento from September 23, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), August 15, 2010, last accessed May 10, 2013
  8. ↑ Caryn Dolley: EXCLUSIVE: Murder, irregularity claims surface after De Lille 'shuts down' City of Cape Town investigative unit ( English ) September 29, 2017.
  9. ↑ a b Caryn Dolley: De Lille's controversial Cape Town investigating unit 'shut down' could be reversed ( English ) January 16, 2018.
  10. ↑ upgrades To De Lille's Home Were Above Board ( english ) January 9 2018th
  11. ^ De Lille survives motion by one vote. citizen.co.za, February 15, 2018, accessed February 18, 2018
  12. ↑ Acting Executive Mayor appointed. capetown.gov.za, accessed May 10, 2018
  13. ↑ Rebecca Davis: Indestructible de Lille is still DA member and mayor. Daily Maverick, June 27, 2018, accessed June 28, 2018
  14. ↑ DA 'in turmoil' as De Lille might not resign as mayor after all. News24, October 24, 2018.
  15. ↑ Bongo Dlulane: Patricia de Lille names her new party 'Good'. ewn.co.za on December 2, 2018, accessed January 28, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Lille, Patricia de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION South African politician
DATE OF BIRTH 17th February 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Beaufort West