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12 Facts About Grant Haskin

1.

Grant Haskin was born on 1968 and is currently serving as Member of the Cape Town City Council and leader of the African Christian Democratic Party in the Cape Town City Council.

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Grant Haskin served in the Western Cape Provincial Parliament for two periods.

3.

Grant Haskin was born in Camps Bay, a suburb on Cape Towns Atlantic coast, to parents Ron and Felicity.

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Grant Haskin became a member of the African Christian Democratic Party in late 1998, serving as an unpaid volunteer at the party's Western Cape provincial office until the June 1999 national general elections.

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In July 1999, Grant Haskin was elected provincial secretary general at the Provincial General Conference, a position he held until the PGC in 2005 where he was elected provincial chair.

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Grant Haskin has managed the ACDP's provincial elections campaigns for 2004,2006,2009 and 2011.

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At the 2004 national general elections, Grant Haskin was elected to the Western Cape Provincial Parliament as a Member of Provincial Parliament.

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Grant Haskin chaired the ACDP's negotiating team which first brought seven smaller parties together to form a king-maker block of 16 Councillors forming the "Multiparty Forum" that was chaired by the ACDP.

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Grant Haskin chaired the City's 2010 Steering Committee tasked with preparing Cape Town to be a Host City for the 2010 Fifa World Cup.

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Grant Haskin remained a councillor in the City of Cape Town until the 18 May 2011 local government elections, where he was re-elected to the same post.

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Grant Haskin won re-election to this post at the National General Conference in late January 2019.

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Grant Haskin was re-appointed to this post in January 2019 for the national general elections through to the 2021 local government elections.