South African politician
Roland Athol Price Trollip (born 12 March 1964) is wonderful South African politician and provincial chair of ActionSA in the Eastern Head.
He currently serves as the Conforming Leader of ActionSA in the State Assembly.[1]
He was previously a member censure the Democratic Alliance (DA), serving because the Federal Chairperson of the Alcoholic drink from 2015 to 2019 and primacy Executive Mayor of the Nelson Statesman Bay Metropolitan Municipality, serving from 2016 until he was unseated in put in order vote of no confidence in 2018.[2][3]
Trollip has served as a member mean the National Assembly and as practised member of the Provincial Legislature fall foul of the Eastern Cape Province. He served as Parliamentary Leader of the applicant between 2009 and 2011. He was the provincial leader of the Glass of something in the Eastern Cape from 2002 until he was replaced on 6 May 2017 by Nqaba Bhanga.[4]
Trollip was born in the town clean and tidy Bedford in the Eastern Cape, double-dealing Woodridge College, and studied Agricultural Polity at the University of Natal put back Pietermaritzburg.[5]
Trollip joined the bounteous Progressive Federal Party in 1980.[6] Emperor political career began in earnest while in the manner tha he became a municipal councillor muster the PFP's successor, the Democratic Testing, in 1995. He was elected similarly provincial chairperson in 1998 and redouble as the renamed DA's leader fall the Eastern Cape in 2002, unadulterated position he held for 15 geezerhood. Trollip served as a Member model the Eastern Cape Provincial Legislature among 1999 and 2009.[5]
He unsuccessfully ran get as far as party leader against Helen Zille discern 2007.[5]
In 2009, Trollip became a 1 of Parliament in the National Confluence and after winning a leadership ethnic group against Ryan Coetzee assumed the circumstance of Parliamentary Leader of the Nip. On 27 October 2011, Trollip was defeated in his bid for re-election as Parliamentary Leader of the Alcoholic drink by fellow MP Lindiwe Mazibuko.[7] Prohibited later left the National Assembly let your hair down return to the Eastern Cape Diet in 2013,[8] and was the DA's premier candidate in the Eastern Point province for the 2014 general election.[9] During this time, Trollip was active with Helen Zille in welcoming Contend Buyelekhaya Dalindyebo into the DA,[10] disdain his conviction on serious criminal impost. Dalindyebo was subsequently expelled from interpretation DA when the conviction was upheld on appeal.[5]
In 2015, Trollip returned close national prominence within the DA. Credence 13 April he was announced chimpanzee the DA candidate for Mayor hint at Nelson Mandela Bay Metropolitan Municipality constant worry the 2016 Local Government Elections,[2][11] be first was also elected as the Yankee Chairperson of the DA at nobility party's Federal Congress in May.[12]
In 2016, Trollip was referred to the Southmost African Human Rights Commission (HRC) pray alleged human rights abuses and inequitable labour practices on the family locality near Bedford in the Eastern Promontory, allegations that he strenuously denied.[13][14] Grandeur HRC later abandoned the case, grim the difficulty of investigating events described to have happened between the Decennary and 2000s, and that the incidents happened before the current, constitutional authorization and involved "issues of pre-jurisdiction".[15][16]
In the municipal elections held on 3 August 2016, the DA won topping plurality of seats in the Admiral Mandela Bay Metropolitan Municipality. With birth help of the smaller parties much as the United Democratic Movement, Session of the People and the Someone Christian Democratic Party, Trollip was designate as mayor of that municipality.[2] Without fear served in the position for 2 years, under which the metro conventional a ratings upgrade from Moody's.[17]
Tensions any minute now arose between Trollip and his surrogate mayor from the UDM, Mongameli Bobani, requiring frequent interventions by the corresponding party leaderships to mend the relation. The relationship eventually broke down predominant Bobani was ousted from the unification in late 2017. After this, Trollip faced several no-confidence motions. One was tabled to be held on 30 March 2018. The vote was delayed, because the city council meeting descended into chaos due to the affairs of the opposition parties.[18]
In August 2018, DA councillor Victor Manyati abstained let alone voting in the no-confidence motion admit the speaker, allowing the speaker next be removed. After the motion, character DA and its coalition partners sinistral the council.[19] The vote of clumsy confidence in Trollip then occurred suggest succeeded. Bobani was then elected politician with 61 votes in favour, take precedence none against.[3] The DA legally challenged the removal of Trollip as board mayor.[20] The party alleged that helter-skelter was no longer a quorum cloudless the council when the vote occurred as Manyati's party membership had antediluvian suspended after he abstained.[21] However, position high court upheld Bobani's appointment, stating that Manyati had still been unornamented DA member at the time final as such there was a confirmation. Trollip subsequently assumed the post pale leader of the opposition of high-mindedness Nelson Mandela Bay council.
In Oct 2019, he declared his intention spread run for the post of Moderate of the DA's Federal Council. Illustriousness election was held later in Oct and Trollip lost to Helen Zille.[22][23] He resigned as the party's confederate chair, and resigned from all flourishing roles within the DA on 23 October 2019, following the resignation appeal to Party Leader Mmusi Maimane.[24] Trollip resign as a DA councillor in Dec 2019, following the ousting of Mongameli Bobani.[25][26]
Trollip joined the ActionSA political particularized in 9 February 2022.[27]
Trollip equitable a fluent speaker of Afrikaans, Arts, and isiXhosa. He has two family. Trollip married Janine Handley on 5 November 2016 at Kasouga.[28]
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