Shelley Loe

Shelley Joy Loe (born 7 December 1958)[1] is a South African politician who represented the Democratic Alliance (DA) in Parliament from 2004 to 2009. Before that, she represented the Democratic Party (DP) in the Gauteng Provincial Legislature from 1999 to 2004.

Shelley Loe
Member of the National Assembly
In office
17 August 2005 – May 2009
ConstituencyNorthern Cape
Delegate to the National Council of Provinces
Assembly Member
for Northern Cape
In office
April 2004 – 15 July 2005
Member of the Gauteng Provincial Legislature
In office
June 1999 – April 2004
Personal details
Born (1958-12-07) 7 December 1958
CitizenshipSouth Africa
Political partyDemocratic Alliance
Democratic Party

Political career

Loe was formerly a local politician for the DP in Gauteng. In May 1998, she became ward councillor for Brakpan in a by-election, in which she won a resounding 78 per cent of the vote against the National Party's Malcolm Laing.[2] In the 1999 general election, she left Brakpan to join the Gauteng Legislature, representing the DP.[1] The Mail & Guardian said that she continued to play a key role in organising her party's by-election campaigns in Gauteng.[3]

After a single term in the provincial legislature, she was elected to the National Council of Provinces in the 2004 general election. She was a member of the Northern Cape caucus and represented the DA, the DP's successor party.[4] A year into the legislative term, in July 2005, Loe resigned from the National Council of Provinces;[4] the following month, on 17 August 2005, she was sworn in to the National Assembly, where she filled a casual vacancy, again in the DA's Northern Cape caucus.[5]

Loe left Parliament after the 2009 general election and subsequently represented the DA as a proportional-representation councillor in Gauteng's Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality, where she led the DA's caucus.[6] She stood for election as DA deputy provincial chairperson in Gauteng in 2014.[6][7] In 2019, she supported Mike Waters's unsuccessful campaign in the contest to succeed James Selfe as chair of the DA federal council.[8]

References
  1. "General Notice: Notice 1319 of 1999 – Electoral Commission: Representatives Elected to the Various Legislatures" (PDF). Government Gazette of South Africa. Vol. 408, no. 20203. Pretoria, South Africa: Government of South Africa. 11 June 1999. Retrieved 26 March 2021.
  2. "NP whipped in Brakpan". The Mail & Guardian. 14 May 1998. Retrieved 29 May 2023.
  3. "Top DA brass low on Gauteng list". The Mail & Guardian. 26 January 2004. Retrieved 29 May 2023.
  4. "List of Members of the National Council of Provinces". Parliament of South Africa. 11 November 2008. Retrieved 17 May 2023.
  5. "National Assembly Members". Parliamentary Monitoring Group. 15 January 2009. Archived from the original on 14 May 2009. Retrieved 8 April 2023.
  6. "DA announces candidates for Provincial Congress". Boksburg Advertiser. 18 November 2014. Retrieved 29 May 2023.
  7. "DA considers coalitions for 2016 local government elections". The Mail & Guardian. 22 November 2014. Retrieved 29 May 2023.
  8. "Battle for top DA job". Herald. 19 October 2019. Retrieved 29 May 2023.
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