Patricia de Lille

Patricia de Lille ( born February 17, 1951 in Beaufort West ) is the Mayor of Cape Town. She is the chairwoman of the Independent Democrats (ID), a South African political party that was founded in 2003 as a splinter group of the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC ) and merged into the Democratic Alliance (DA). Since the ID to be resolved until 2014, Patricia de Lille is currently a member of both parties.

Life

Patricia de Lille worked as a lab technician in Cape Town and joined the South African Chemical Workers Union (South African Chemical Workers Union ) in 1983 she was elected to its Executive Board. In 1988 she was elected Vice - President of the National Council of Trade Unions ( National Council of Trade Unions ( NACTU ) ). This was the highest position, which held a woman at that time in the union movement.

In the 1990s, she was a board member of the Pan Africanist Congress and headed its delegation in the negotiations for the South African Constitution, which were the first democratic elections preceded 1994. From 1994 to 1999, she stood before the Transport Committee of the Parliament and was also parliamentary leader of the Pan Africanist Congress. On August 15, 2010 Patricia de Lille announced the unification of ID and DA. On 1 June 2011, she was Mayor of Cape Town.