Patricia de Lille: Biography of Patricia de Lille, Age, Husband, Career & Net Worth,<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n
Patricia de Lille (born 17 February 1951) is a South African politician, laboratory technician and trade unionist. She serves as the current Minister of Public Works and Infrastructure and leader of the\u00a0political party\u00a0Good.<\/strong><\/p>\n
She previously served as the Mayor of Cape Town from 2011 to 2018, and Western Cape Provincial Minister of Social Development from 2010 to 2011.<\/p>\n
She was born on 17 February 1951 in Beaufort West, Cape Province, Union of South Africa. De Lille is 70 years old as of 2021.<\/p>\n
De Lille attended Methodist Primary School, Bastiaanse Ho\u00ebrskool, and Damelin College.<\/p>\n
She was married to Edwin de Lille for 49 years. Her husband died on 7 February 2021 after suffering a long illness. They had two children together, Allistair de Lille and Carmen de Lille.<\/p>\n
In 1974 she became a laboratory technician at a factory. She remained involved with the same company until 1990. During this time, she became involved in the South African Chemical Workers Union, starting off as a shop steward and then becoming regional secretary, before being elected as a National Executive Member in 1983.<\/p>\n
In 1988, she was elected as National Vice-President of The National Council of Trade Unions (NACTU), the highest position for a woman in the trade union movement at that time.<\/p>\n
In 1989, De Lille was elected onto the National Executive Committee of the Pan Africanist Movement (PAM). She led a delegation in the constitutional negotiations that preceded South Africa\u2019s first democratic election in 1994, and following her election as a Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) MP, she was appointed as Chairperson of the Parliamentary Committee on Transport from 1994 to 1999.<\/p>\n
She also served on various portfolio Committees including Health, Minerals and Energy, Trade and Industry, Communications, the Rules Committee and the Code of Ethics.<\/p>\n
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De Lille has an estimated net worth of $1 million which she has earned from her successful career.<\/p>\n