Gerald Morkel later served as a member of the Cape Town City Council for the Democratic Alliance until his retirement from politics in 2011.
11 Facts About Gerald Morkel
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Gerald Morkel was elected on a Labour Party ticket to the coloureds-only House of Representatives in the Tricameral Parliament in 1984.
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Gerald Morkel defected to the National Party by 1994, and was appointed the Western Cape leader of the renamed New National Party by 1998, when he became premier of the province after Hernus Kriel stepped down.
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The NNP formed a coalition with the smaller Democratic Party, with Morkel remaining as premier.
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Gerald Morkel was deeply critical of this decision and attempted to turn the majority of the NNP against it.
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Gerald Morkel remained in office for less than a year, when the DA was ousted from power by an ANC-NNP coalition following the floor-crossing period in October 2002.
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Gerald Morkel continued for a while as Western Cape provincial leader of the DA but eventually stepped down due to his links to fraudster Jurgen Harksen.
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Gerald Morkel continued serving as a member of the City Council for Steenberg until 2011.
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Gerald Morkel died on Tuesday afternoon, 9 January 2018, at his home in Tokai, Cape Town.
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Gerald Morkel was diagnosed with cancer in the abdomen, in 2014.
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Gerald Morkel had three sons: Garth, Kent and Craig, and a daughter, Gail.