1. Alan Richard Winde was born on 18 March 1965 and is a South African politician and businessman.
39 Facts About Alan Winde
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Alan Winde is the 8th and current Premier of the Western Cape, having held the position since 2019.
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Alan Winde has been a Member of the Western Cape Provincial Parliament since 1999 and belongs to the Democratic Alliance.
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Alan Winde started his political career as a municipal and district councillor in the early 1990s.
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Alan Winde has held various leadership positions in the Democratic Alliance provincial parliament caucus.
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In September 2018, the Democratic Alliance selected Alan Winde to be the party's Western Cape Premier candidate.
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Alan Winde was elected Premier on 22 May 2019, succeeding Zille.
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Alan Winde is the second Western Cape Premier from the Democratic Alliance.
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Alan Richard Winde was born on 18 March 1965 in Knysna to Ingrid and William Dave Winde.
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Alan Winde started many small businesses that specialised in printing, selling bicycles, courier services and boat parts in Knysna.
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Alan Winde later worked as a business consultant for Aldes Business Brokers, a South African Top 100 Company.
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Alan Winde ran as an independent candidate and was elected to the South Cape District Council in 1996.
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Alan Winde had previously served as a councillor for the Outeniqua Rural Council.
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Alan Winde was sworn in as a Member on 15 June 2009.
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Alan Winde returned to the Provincial Parliament following the 2004 general election.
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Zille announced in October 2018 that Alan Winde would move to the Provincial Community Safety Department as incumbent Provincial Minister Dan Plato had announced his intention to resign.
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Alan Winde was succeeded by Beverley Schafer on 1 November 2018.
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Alan Winde subsequently assumed the post of Provincial Minister of Community Safety.
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Alan Winde has served as acting Premier of the Western Cape on various brief occasions when Zille was unavailable.
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In February 2019, Zille was in Germany, and so Alan Winde was sworn in as acting premier.
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Alan Winde consequently represented the provincial government at the State of the Nation Address held in the same month.
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Alan Winde emerged as the front-runner quite early on in the Democratic Alliance selection process for the party's candidate for Western Cape Premier.
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Alan Winde was elected Premier of the Western Cape on 22 May 2019 during the first sitting of the Sixth Provincial Parliament and accordingly became the second Democratic Alliance member to hold the office.
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Alan Winde announced the formation of his Provincial Cabinet on 23 May 2019.
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Alan Winde retained four ministers in their existing portfolios, while he moved three to other portfolios and appointed three new members.
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Alan Winde said that all the newly appointed cabinet members would undergo lifestyle audits.
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However, Alan Winde wrote to President Cyril Ramaphosa and Defence Minister Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula in mid-September 2019 to request that the SANDF deployment in Cape Town be extended, stating that it was necessary to bring stability.
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Alan Winde delivered his maiden State of the Province Address on 18 July 2019, in which he highlighted the provincial government's achievements and outlined his agenda.
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Also in the speech, Alan Winde placed emphasis on the provincial crime and misconduct statistics and claimed that the police "had lost the war on crime" because of mismanagement.
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Alan Winde was exposed to a positive case of COVID-19 on 18 March 2020.
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Alan Winde consequently worked from home as medical experts advised him not to go into self-isolation or be tested.
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Alan Winde later said that he would argue against a stricter lockdown being imposed on the Western Cape as a whole.
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On 24 December 2020, Alan Winde urged all religious gatherings in the province to not be held in-person.
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Alan Winde said on 20 January 2021 that the first two weeks of the suspension had cost the Western Cape economy over R1 billion.
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On 26 August 2023, DA leader John Steenhuisen announced that Alan Winde was the party's Western Cape premier candidate for the 2024 provincial election.
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Alan Winde was re-elected as premier during the first sitting of the Seventh Provincial Parliament on 13 June 2024.
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Alan Winde received 26 votes while his challenger for the position, Muhammad Khalid Sayed of the African National Congress, received 14 votes.
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Alan Winde's son is studying sound engineering while his daughter has finished high school.
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Alan Winde was a member of his daughter's high school's governing body.