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Sheila Margaret Camerer is a South African politician and senior Member of Parliament of the main opposition Democratic Alliance (DA).
Although Camerer's father had been a Member of Parliament for the ruling National Party (NP), as a young lawyer in the mid-1970s she worked on the legal defence strategies of anti-apartheid activitists, including that of the Soweto Committee of Ten. The latter included Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, wife of then jailed African National Congress (ANC) leader and future South African President, Nelson Mandela.
Camerer shocked the establishment when she joined the NP herself and in 1982 was elected NP member of the Johannesburg City Council. In 1987 she was elected Member of Parliament for the Johannesburg constituency of Rosettenville and two years later appointed deputy justice minister in the government of reformist NP leader and South African president FW de Klerk.
During the constitutional negotiations on a democratic South Africa, Camerer was employed to lead the NP in drafting a Bill of Rights. Later she became a prominent spokesperson for the party in parliament, and served shortly as deputy justice minister after 1994 until De Klerk decided to suspend the party's participation in the Government of National Unity (GNU).
Camerer was seen as opposing the withdrawel of the now remained New National Party (NNP) from the Democratic Alliance (DA) in 2001, but remained an NNP member until 2003 when newly promulgated legislation allowed her to defect to the DA without losing her parliamentary seat.
In November 2006 Camerer voted in favour of legislation permitting homosexual civil unions.
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Members of the National Assembly of South Africa for the Democratic Alliance |
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Jacobus Delport - Stuart Farrow - Trevor Lee - Eddie Trent - A. J. Botha - Sandra Botha - Johannes Blanché - George Boinamo - Sheila Camerer - Ryan Coetzee - Ian Davidson - Anchen Dreyer - Douglas Gibson - Les Labuschange - Tony Leon - Karel Minnie - Hendrick Schmidt - Janet Semple - Butch Steyn - Manie van Dyk - Mike Waters - Mike Ellis - Sandy Kalyan - Dianne Kohler-Barnard - CHristopher Lowe - Gareth Morgan - Mohammed Sayedali-Shah - Mpowele Swathe - Désirée van der Walt - Suhla Masango - Hilda Weber - Joe Seremane - Paul Swart - Shelley Loe - Maans Nel - Willem Doman - Isaac Julies - Ryno King - S. J. F. Marais - Sydney Opperman - Pierre Rabie - James Selfe - Dene Smuts - Marius Swart - Kraai van Niekerk |
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Members of the South African Parliament from Gauteng  |
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Elected in the 2004 election
ANC (35 NA seats), Democratic Alliance (15 NA seats), Inkatha Freedom Party (1 NA seat), FF+ (1 NA seat)
National Assembly
Kopeng Bapela (ANC) • Johannes Blanché (DA) • Hendrietta Bogopane-Zulu (ANC) • George Boinamo (DA) • Ismail Cachalia (ANC) • Sheila Camerer (DA) • Ryan Coetzee (DA) • Pamela Daniels (ANC) • Ian Davidson) (DA) • Patricia de Lille (ID) • Bonginkosi Dhlamini (IFP) • Anchin Dreyer (DA) • Joanmariae Fubbs (ANC) • Douglas Gibson (DA) • Nonkumbi Gxowa (ANC) • Fatima Hajaig (ANC) • Barbara Hogan (ANC) • Loretta Jacobus (ANC) • Charles Kekana (ANC) • Les Labuschagne (DA) • Tony Leon (DA) • Mighty Madasa (ANC) • Homes Maluleka (ANC) • Daniel Maluleke (ANC) • Maggie Maunye (ANC) • Karel Minnie (DA) • Andrew Mlangeni (ANC) • Aubrey Mogoena (ANC) • Phillip Moleketi (ANC) • Oupa Monareng (ANC) • Storey Morutoa (ANC) • Semamanyane Motubatse-Hounkpatin (ANC) • Andries Nel (ANC) • Nompendulo Ngcengwane (ANC) • Nombuyiselo Ngele (ANC) • Winnie Ngwenya (ANC) • Sisa Njikelana (ANC) • Richard Ntuli (ANC) • Muntu Mxumalo (ANC) • Dorothy Ramodibe (ANC) • Hendrik Schmidt (DA) • Greg Schneemann (ANC) • Janet Semple (DA) • Dumisani Sithole (ANC) • Vincent Smith (ANC) • Willie Spies (FF+) • Butch Steyn (DA) • Elizabeth Thabethe (ANC) • Ismail Vadi (ANC) • Manie van Dyk (DA) • Mike Waters (DA) • Lulama Xingwana (ANC) • Langa Zita (ANC)
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• Nomopo Madlala-Maqubane (ANC) • Faith Mazibuko (ANC) • Sicelo Shiceka (ANC) • Elliot Sogoni (ANC) • Sherry Chen (DA) • Madala Mzizi (IFP)
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