Patricia of Lille

Patricia of Lille (born the February 17th 1951 with Beaufort West, the Cape Province) is a political woman of South Africa, leader of the independent Démocrates (" Independent Democrats"), party which it founded in 2003 following its rupture with the Congrès African Side (" Side Africanist Congress" - CAP).

Technician of laboratory to the Cape and Trade unionist, it is elected with the national executive of the " South African Chemical Workers Union" in 1983.

In 1988, it is elected national vice-president of the National council of the Trade unions (National Council off Trade Unions - NACTU).

In 1990, Patricia of Lille is elected at the executive national council of the Congress African Side, a liberation movement Africanist, which it represents during the constitutional negotiations which will lead to the first multiracial elections of South Africa the April 27th 1994.

Elected appointed CAP, it chairs the Committee on Transport of 1994 1999 while being the vice-president of the parliamentary group of the CAP.

In 2003, it breaks with the CAP and founds its own party, the independent Democrats, center, who obtain 7 deputies (1,7% of the voices) at the time of the general elections of April 2004.

Regarded as a progressist and a Feminist , of Lille was criticized with the center even of its party for its authoritarianism, its Absentéisme with the Parlement, and by the other parties of the opposition for the connotations " Mugabesque s" of its speeches.

She was elected with the twenty-second places on the list of the 100 outstanding personalities of South Africa (100 Greatest South Africans).

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