Gizella Opperman (née Hartnick; born 24 July 1980) is a South African politician from the

Northern Cape The Northern Cape is the largest and most sparsely populated province of South Africa. It was created in 1994 when the Cape Province was split up. Its capital is Kimberley. It includes the Kalahari Gemsbok National Park, part of the Kgalagadi T ...

serving as a Member of the

National Assembly of South Africa The National Assembly is the directly elected house of the Parliament of South Africa, located in Cape Town, Western Cape. It consists of four hundred members who are elected every five years using a party-list proportional representation syste ...

since 2019. Opperman is a party member of the Democratic Alliance (DA).

Political career

In 2011, Opperman was elected as a councillor of the

Hantam Local Municipality Hantam is an administrative area in the Namakwa District of Northern Cape in South Africa. Hatam is a Khoi name that means "mountains where the bulbs grow". The municipality is named after the Hantam Mountains found in the area. Main places T ...

. She was elected as the deputy provincial chairperson of the Democratic Alliance Women's Network in September 2015. She is currently the provincial chairperson. Opperman was the first candidate on the DA's Northern Cape list of candidates for the general election on 8 May 2019. She was elected to the National Assembly at the election and was sworn in as a Member of Parliament on 22 May 2019. She became a member of the Portfolio Committee on Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (CoGTA) in June of the same year. In 2020, Opperman declared her candidacy for provincial chairperson of the Democratic Alliance. The provincial congress was held on 5 December 2020. She lost to Isak Fritz.

References

External links

Gizella Opperman – People's AssemblyMrs Gizella Opperman – Parliament of South Africa
Living people Democratic Alliance (South Africa) politicians Members of the National Assembly of South Africa People from the Northern Cape Coloured South African people 1980 births {{NorthernCape-politician-stub