Gerald Morkel

Gerald Morkel
Mayor of Cape Town
In office
13 December 2001 – 30 October 2002
Preceded byPeter Marais
Succeeded byNomaindia Mfeketo
2nd Premier of the Western Cape
In office
11 May 1998 – 12 November 2001
Preceded byHernus Kriel
Succeeded byPeter Marais
Personal details
Born(1941-02-02)February 2, 1941
Cape Town, Cape Province, South Africa
Died9 January 2018(2018-01-09) (aged 76)
Tokai, Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
Political partyDemocratic Alliance
Other political
affiliations		New National Party
Labour Party
SpouseHazel Morkel
Children4
ProfessionPolitician

Gerald Morkel (2 February 1941[1] – 9 January 2018)[2] was the Mayor of Cape Town and Premier of the Western Cape province in South Africa. He later served as a member of the Cape Town City Council for the Democratic Alliance until his retirement from politics in 2011.

Political career

He was elected on a Labour Party ticket to the coloureds-only House of Representatives in the Tricameral Parliament in 1984. He defected to the National Party by 1994, and was appointed the Western Cape leader of the renamed New National Party by 1998, when he became premier of the province after Hernus Kriel stepped down. In the 1999 election, no party obtained a majority in the Western Cape. The NNP formed a coalition with the smaller Democratic Party, with Morkel remaining as premier. In 2000, plans began to prepare an amalgamation of the two parties under the name Democratic Alliance.

However, in 2001, the NNP leadership pulled out of its co-operation with the DA and instead sought to form a partnership with the African National Congress. Morkel was deeply critical of this decision and attempted to turn the majority of the NNP against it. When this failed, he was forced to resign as premier. Joining the DA, Morkel was then elected as mayor of Cape Town. He remained in office for less than a year, when the DA was ousted from power by an ANC-NNP coalition following the floor-crossing period in October 2002. Morkel continued for a while as Western Cape provincial leader of the DA but eventually stepped down due to his links to fraudster Jurgen Harksen.

He continued serving as a member of the City Council for Steenberg until 2011.

Death

Morkel died on Tuesday afternoon, 9 January 2018, at his home in Tokai, Cape Town. His wife and sister were by his side. He was diagnosed with cancer in the abdomen, in 2014.[3]

Family

Morkel had three sons: Garth, Kent (also a politician) and Craig, and a daughter, Gail.

References

  1. ^ Marco Granelli, Pretoria News, July 1999
  2. ^ Former CT mayor and Western Cape premier Gerald Morkel has died, News24, 9 January 2018.
  3. ^ Former Cape Town mayor Gerald Morkel dies
Political offices
Preceded by Premier of the Western Cape
11 May 1998 – 12 November 2001 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Mayor of Cape Town
2001–2002 		Succeeded by

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