Patrick Cecil McKenzie was born on 8 December 1952 and is a South African politician who represented the African National Congress in the Western Cape Provincial Parliament until his retirement in November 2012, holding several positions in the Western Cape Executive Council during that time.
12 Facts About Patrick McKenzie
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Patrick McKenzie is Coloured and when he was eight, his family was forcibly removed from Cape Town's District Six under the apartheid-era Group Areas Act.
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Patrick McKenzie flirted with the Congress-aligned anti-apartheid movement but disapproved of the use of violence in the movement.
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Patrick McKenzie worked in management in the Cape Town City Council from 1977 and in 1983 he was elected to the Coloured chamber of the newly established Tricameral Parliament, representing the Labour Party in the Bonteheuwel constituency.
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Patrick McKenzie remained in his seat until the abolition of apartheid, and therefore of the Tricameral Parliament, in 1994.
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In South Africa's first post-apartheid elections in 1994, McKenzie was elected to the Western Cape Provincial Parliament, where he ultimately served in a variety of portfolios in the Western Cape Executive Council.
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Patrick McKenzie left the provincial parliament for a brief period between March and June 1996, when he was sworn into the National Assembly to serve as national Minister of Welfare and Population Development in Nelson Mandela's multi-party Government of National Unity; he left the ministry on 30 June 1996, when the NP withdrew from the cabinet entirely, but remained in his legislative seat.
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Patrick McKenzie did indeed defect to the ANC and in the 1999 election, he was returned to the Western Cape Provincial Parliament on the ANC's party list.
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Patrick McKenzie was re-elected in 2004 and took up his final posting in the Executive Council in July 2008, when Premier Lynne Brown named him as Member of the Executive Council for Community Safety.
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Patrick McKenzie left the Executive Council after the 2009 general election, when the ANC lost control of the provincial parliament.
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Patrick McKenzie is married to Carol McKenzie, who represented the ANC in local politics and with whom he has several children.
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Patrick McKenzie's son Angus is a local politician in Cape Town and is a member of the Democratic Alliance.