| Virgill Gericke | |
| Honorific-Suffix: | MP |
| Office: | Permanent Delegate to the National Council of Provinces |
| Term Start: | 15 June 2024 |
| Office1: | Member of the National Assembly of South Africa |
| Term Start1: | 20 October 2023 |
| Term End1: | 28 May 2024 |
| Office2: | President of the Plaaslike Besorgde Inwoners |
| Term Start2: | 2011 |
| Term End2: | 19 October 2023 |
| Predecessor2: | Party created |
| Successor2: | Roselien Titus (acting)[1] |
| Party: | Economic Freedom Fighters (2023–present) |
| Otherparty: | Plaaslike Besorgde Inwoners (2011–2023) |
Virgill Gericke is a South African politician who has been a Permanent Delegate to the National Council of Provinces representing the Western Cape as a member of the Economic Freedom Fighters. Prior to serving in the NCOP, he was a Member of Parliament in the National Assembly. Gericke previously served as the founding president of the Plaaslike Besorgde Inwoners, a minor political party in the Garden Route District Municipality, from 2011 until 2023.
Gericke founded the Plaaslike Besorgde Inwoners (English: Local Concerned Residents) in 2011.[2] The party won one seat in the council of the George Local Municipality in the 2011 municipal elections, and Gericke was elected to take up the party's sole council seat.[3] Gericke was re-elected to council in 2016. Following the election, he was elected to serve on the council of the Garden Route District Municipality.[4] Gericke was re-elected to a third term on the George municipal council in 2021. Afterwards, he was re-elected to the Garden Route district council. He was fielded as a mayoral candidate, but lost to incumbent Memory Booysen of the Democratic Alliance, winning only 15 votes to Booysen's 18 out of 33 votes.[5]
On 18 October 2023, Gericke resigned from the George municipal council and the Garden Route district council.[6] He resigned from the PBI and joined the Economic Freedom Fighters party the following day.[7] It was speculated that Gericke would be sworn in as a Member of Parliament for the EFF; he was sworn in as a member of the National Assembly on 20 October.[8] Gericke was appointed to the National Council of Provinces following the 2024 general election.[9]