Annette Lovemore
Annette Lovemore | |
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Shadow Minister of Basic Education | |
Assumed office 2012 | |
Leader | Helen Zille |
Preceded by | Junita Kloppers-Lourens |
Member of Parliament for Eastern Cacadu, Eastern Cape | |
Assumed office 6 May 2009 | |
Personal details | |
Nationality | South African |
Political party | Democratic Alliance |
Annette Lovemore is a South African politician, a Member of Parliament with the Democratic Alliance (DA), and the Shadow Minister of Basic Education. [1] She served as a Councillor in the Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality before being elected to Parliament in 2009.
Early life
Annette Lovemore was born on 20 December 1958. She graduated from Kimberly Girls’ High School in 1975 and went on to receive her BSc at University of Cape Town in 1978.[1]
Political life
Lovemore is the DA’s Shadow Minister of Home Affairs. She has continuously brought to light the inadequacies of handling of the refugee applicants within South Africa,[2] laws that could hurt the prospects of foreign investments into the country,[3] and the Department of Home Affairs seemingly nonchalant handling of ID, grant and pension fraud happening from foreigners illegally in South Africa.[4]
References
- ^ a b "Our People - DA". Cite error: The named reference "dapage" was defined multiple times with different content (see the help page).
- ^ "Refugee applications".
- ^ "Immigration reform bill".
- ^ "Foreign ID fraud 'bleeding SA fiscus'".
Offices held