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Annette Lovemore

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Annette Lovemore
Shadow Minister of Basic Education
Assumed office
2012
LeaderHelen Zille
Preceded byJunita Kloppers-Lourens
Member of Parliament
for Eastern Cacadu, Eastern Cape
Assumed office
6 May 2009
Personal details
NationalitySouth African
Political partyDemocratic 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.[2]

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,[3] laws that could hurt the prospects of foreign investments into the country,[4] and the Department of Home Affairs seemingly nonchalant handling of ID, grant and pension fraud happening from foreigners illegally in South Africa.[5]

References

  1. ^ "Our People - DA".
  2. ^ "DA Our People".
  3. ^ "Refugee applications".
  4. ^ "Immigration reform bill".
  5. ^ "Foreign ID fraud 'bleeding SA fiscus'".

Offices held

Political offices
Preceded by South African Shadow Minister of Basic Education
2012–present
Incumbent