Donald Arthur Cardross Grant is a South African businessman and politician. He was the Western Cape Provincial Minister of Transport and Public Works from 2014 to 2019 and the Western Cape Provincial Minister of Education from 2009 to 2014. He was a

Member of the Western Cape Provincial Parliament In the Western Cape province of South Africa, Member of Provincial Parliament (MPP) is the designation given to members of the Western Cape Provincial Parliament.{{cite web , url=http://www.wcpp.gov.za/content.aspx?pageId=f2264ae2-735f-4add-b532-33 ...

from 2009 to 2019. Grant started his political career as a councillor at the Bitou Municipality. Grant is a member of the Democratic Alliance (DA).

Biography

Donald Grant obtained a

Master of Business Administration A Master of Business Administration (MBA; also Master's in Business Administration) is a postgraduate degree focused on business administration. The core courses in an MBA program cover various areas of business administration such as accounti ...

at the University of Cape Town. He worked for several years in the private sector before he was elected a

Bitou Local Municipality Bitou Local Municipality ( af, Bitou Munisipaliteit; xh, uMasipala wase Bitou, formerly known as Plettenberg Bay Municipality) is a municipality part of Garden Route District Municipality located in the Western Cape Province of South Africa ...

councillor. In April 2009, he was elected as a Member of the Western Cape Provincial Parliament for the Democratic Alliance. He was sworn in as a Member on 6 May 2009. Newly elected Premier

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announced that Grant would become the Provincial Minister of Education, succeeding Yousuf Gabru. He was inaugurated as Provincial Minister on 7 May 2009 by Constitutional Court Judge

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. In the general election of 7 May 2014, he was re-elected for a second term as a member of the provincial parliament. Zille announced that Grant would now become Provincial Minister of Transport and Public Works, succeeding Robin Carlisle. He was inaugurated by Western Cape High Court Deputy Judge President Janette Traverso on 26 May 2014.

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succeeded him as Provincial Minister of Education. Grant left the provincial parliament after the 2019 elections, although he was elected to another term as an MPP. Newly elected Premier

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appointed him as a special adviser. In November 2021, he retired from the provincial government.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Grant, Donald Living people Democratic Alliance (South Africa) politicians Members of the Western Cape Provincial Parliament Year of birth missing (living people) University of Cape Town alumni