18 Facts About Lennit Max

Lennit Max was a member of the Freedom Front Plus until his resignation in 2024.

Lennit Max was previously a member of the African National Congress, the Democratic Alliance and the Independent Democrats.

On 22 September 2021, Max was announced as the FF Plus's mayoral candidate for the City of Cape Town ahead of the municipal elections scheduled for 1 November 2021.

Lennit Max has achieved a Magister Legum in Labour Law and a Higher Certificate Forensic Examination from the University of the Western Cape.

Lennit Max was appointed Western Cape Provincial Commissioner of Police in 1999 and served until 2003 when he went on early pension.

Lennit Max joined the Independent Democrats in early 2003 and became Western Cape Provincial Leader of the Independent Democrats in September of the same year.

Lennit Max was elected to the Western Cape Provincial Parliament in 2004.

Lennit Max did offer his resignation as the leader but rescinded it after he heard that it would mean that he would be removed as a Member of the Provincial Parliament.

Lennit Max was suspended and expelled from the party in 2005 after the party found that he had breached his membership code of conduct.

Lennit Max ultimately crossed the floor on the first day of the 2005 floor-crossing period and joined the Democratic Alliance.

In 2007, Lennit Max challenged incumbent Theuns Botha for the post of Provincial Leader of the Democratic Alliance.

Fritz would now become a Member of the Western Cape Provincial Parliament and Provincial Minister of Community Safety, while Lennit Max would become a Member of the National Assembly and Shadow Deputy Minister of Correctional Services.

Lennit Max said that he was interested in running for the position, but ultimately chose not to run.

In 2015, Lennit Max declared his candidacy to replace Ivan Meyer as Provincial Leader of the Democratic Alliance, as Meyer had announced that he was retiring after only one term.

Lennit Max lost to Madikizela at the party's provincial congress in October 2017.

On 30 June 2018, it was announced that Lennit Max had been appointed an advisor to the Minister of Police Bheki Cele.

Lennit Max resigned from the Freedom Front Plus in April 2024, claiming that the party was racist and focussed exclusively on Afrikaner interests.

Lennit Max apologised to the coloured people of South Africa for misleading them to vote for the Freedom Front Plus in 2021.