Gizella Opperman
Gizella Opperman | |
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| Member of the National Assembly of South Africa | |
| Assumed office 22 May 2019 | |
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| Party | Democratic Alliance |
Gizella Opperman (née Hartnick; born 24 July 1980) is a South African politician from the Northern Cape serving as a Member of the National Assembly of South Africa since 2019. Opperman is a party member of the Democratic Alliance (DA).
Political career
[edit | edit source]In 2011, Opperman was elected as a councillor of the Hantam Local Municipality. She was elected as the deputy provincial chairperson of the Democratic Alliance Women's Network in September 2015.[1] She is currently the provincial chairperson.[2]
Opperman was the first candidate on the DA's Northern Cape list of candidates for the general election on 8 May 2019.[3] She was elected to the National Assembly at the election and was sworn in as a Member of Parliament on 22 May 2019.[4] She became a member of the Portfolio Committee on Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (CoGTA) in June of the same year.[5]
In 2020, Opperman declared her candidacy for provincial chairperson of the Democratic Alliance. The provincial congress was held on 5 December 2020.[6] She lost to Isak Fritz.[7]
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