19 Facts About Jacques Smalle

Jacques Smalle had previously served as the party's Limpopo provincial leader and as deputy federal chairperson of the party.

Jacques Smalle was the DA's Limpopo Premier candidate for the 2019 election.

Jacques Smalle was born on 28 June 1970 in the Louis Trichardt Memorial Hospital in the town of Louis Trichardt.

Jacques Smalle was an activist for vulnerable children in the Limpopo town of Oudtshoorn during the 1990s.

Jacques Smalle served in the position until newly-elected Parliamentary Leader of the Democratic Alliance Lindiwe Mazibuko appointed him to the position of Shadow Deputy Minister of Energy in February 2012.

In June 2012, Jacques Smalle unseated incumbent Provincial Leader Desiree van der Walt.

Jacques Smalle was declared the winner after four candidates were eliminated.

In May 2014, Jacques Smalle returned to the Limpopo Provincial Legislature as leader of the Democratic Alliance caucus.

Jacques Smalle currently sits on the committees on Agriculture, Public Accounts, Rules and Ethics, and Education in the provincial legislature.

Jacques Smalle won re-election to a second term as Provincial Leader of the Limpopo Democratic Alliance in February 2015.

Jacques Smalle was elected as the third deputy federal chairperson of the DA in 2020.

In early-March 2021, a report by the Federal Legal Commission of the DA, which recommended that disciplinary steps be taken against Jacques Smalle for abusing party funds and fraud, was leaked two years after it was reportedly published.

Jacques Smalle was running for a fourth term as provincial leader against DA MP Solly Malatsi.

On 26 April 2021, Jacques Smalle was suspended from party activities by the Federal Executive of the DA for alleged tax fraud and abuse of party funds.

Jacques Smalle was reinstated on 13 March 2023 following a lengthy internal party disciplinary process which found him not guilty of the five charges brought against him by the party.

Jacques Smalle continued serving as a Member of the Limpopo Legislature and as leader of the DA caucus until 31 March 2023 after which he resigned to become a Member of Parliament for the DA.

Jacques Smalle stood down as a deputy federal chairperson of the DA at the party's Federal Congress held from 1 to 2 April 2023.

Jacques Smalle was elected at the provincial conference on 27 May 2023, having defeated Desiree van der Walt.

Jacques Smalle was married to Heidi Smalle; they had two children together, Pierre and Juan.