Shelley Loe Explained

Party:Democratic Alliance
Democratic Party
Office1:Member of the National Assembly
Termstart1:17 August 2005
Termend1:May 2009
Citizenship:South Africa
Birth Date:7 December 1958
Constituency1:Northern Cape
Constituency Am2:Northern Cape
Office2:Delegate to the National Council of Provinces
Termstart2:April 2004
Termend2:15 July 2005
Office3:Member of the Gauteng Provincial Legislature
Termstart3:June 1999
Termend3:April 2004

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.

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. 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; 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.[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]

Notes and References

  1. 11 June 1999 . General Notice: Notice 1319 of 1999 – Electoral Commission: Representatives Elected to the Various Legislatures . . Pretoria, South Africa . . 408 . 20203 . 26 March 2021.
  2. Web site: 1998-05-14 . NP whipped in Brakpan . 2023-05-29 . The Mail & Guardian . en-ZA.
  3. Web site: 2004-01-26 . Top DA brass low on Gauteng list . 2023-05-29 . The Mail & Guardian . en-ZA.
  4. Web site: 11 November 2008 . List of Members of the National Council of Provinces . 2023-05-17 . Parliament of South Africa.
  5. Web site: 2009-01-15 . National Assembly Members . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20090514071402/http://www.pmg.org.za/parlinfo/nalist#_ftnref87 . 14 May 2009 . 2023-04-08 . Parliamentary Monitoring Group.
  6. Web site: 2014-11-18 . DA announces candidates for Provincial Congress . 2023-05-29 . Boksburg Advertiser . en-US.
  7. Web site: 2014-11-22 . DA considers coalitions for 2016 local government elections . 2023-05-29 . The Mail & Guardian . en-ZA.
  8. Web site: 19 October 2019 . Battle for top DA job . 2023-05-29 . Herald . en-ZA.