Peter Marais

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Peter Marais (born 1948) is a South African politician who participated in the Tricameral Parliament and became the Mayor of Cape Town after the 2000 election and later Premier of the Western Cape province.

Marais became Mayor of Cape Town following the local government election in December 2000 as a member of the Democratic Alliance (DA). He was forced from the position in 2001 by DA leader Tony Leon, who saw him as a political embarrassment.^[1] The move contributed to the New National Party (NNP) pulling out of the DA.

As a member of the NNP, Marais became premier of the Western Cape from December 5, 2001, to June 3, 2002, when he resigned following allegations of sexual harassment. The state declined to prosecute him for these allegations.^[2]

He later founded the New Labour Party (NLP), attracting only 0.67% of the Western Cape provincial votes in the national election in 2004.

In 2006, he was cleared of corruption charges stemming from party funding in 2002.^[3]

In November 2008, Marais joined the newly formed Congress of the People party, which broke from the ruling African National Congress early in the year.^[4]

References

↑ "The build-up that led to the implosion of the DA". SABC. Archived from the original on 2007-09-29. Retrieved 2007-05-10.
↑ "South Africa Year in Review: 2002". Encyclopædia Britannica.
↑ "Marais wipes away tears after verdict". 5 October 2006.
↑ Peter Marais joins Cope news24.com, 28 November 2008

Political offices
Preceded by William Bantom	Mayor of Cape Town 2000 – 2001	Succeeded by Gerald Morkel
Preceded by Gerald Morkel	Premier of the Western Cape 5 December 2001 – 3 June 2002	Succeeded by Marthinus van Schalkwyk

v t e Mayors of Cape Town

van Breda Jarvis Dié de Waal Inglesby Bothwick Graaff Dommisse Liberman Baxter Smith Hands Lewis Gradner Foster Baxter Bloomberg Sonnenburg Thompson Honikman Gradner Tyers Kreiner Markowitz Oliver van der Velde Solomons Bantom Hill Marais Morkel Mfeketo Zille Plato de Lille

v t e Premiers of the Western Cape

Kriel Morkel Herandien (acting) Marais Meyer (acting) Schalkwyk Ramatlakane (acting) Rasool Brown Zille

Authority control	VIAF: 96897824

Persondata
Name	Marais, Peter
Alternative names
Short description	South African politician
Date of birth	1948
Place of birth
Date of death
Place of death

This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike; additional terms may apply for the media files.