(1964-03-12) 12 March 1964 (age 60) Bedford, Cape Province, South Africa
Political party
ActionSA (Feb 2022–present)
Democratic Alliance (1995–2020)
Other political affiliations
Progressive Federal Party (1980-1989)
Spouse
Janine Handley
(m. 2016)
Children
2
Roland Athol Price Trollip (born 12 March 1964) is a South African politician and provincial chairman of ActionSA in the Eastern Cape.
He currently serves as the Parliamentary Leader of ActionSA in the National Assembly. [1]
He was previously a member of the Democratic Alliance (DA), serving as the Federal Chairperson of the DA from 2015 to 2019 and the Executive Mayor of the Nelson Mandela Bay Metropolitan Municipality, serving from 2016 until he was unseated in a vote of no confidence in 2018.[2][3]
Trollip has served as a member of the National Assembly and as a member of the Provincial Legislature of the Eastern Cape Province. He served as Parliamentary Leader of the opposition between 2009 and 2011. He was the provincial leader of the DA in the Eastern Cape from 2002 until he was replaced on 6 May 2017 by Nqaba Bhanga.[4]
^"Athol Trollip Elected ActionSA National Caucus Leader". ActionSA. 12 June 2024. Retrieved 17 June 2024.
^"Athol Trollip launches mayoral campaign in Mandela Bay". News24. 12 September 2015. Retrieved 4 August 2016.
^Cite error: The named reference ousted was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^"DA elects Nqaba Bhanga as E Cape's new leader", SABC Digital News, 2017-05-06
Roland Athol Price Trollip (born 12 March 1964) is a South African politician and provincial chairman of ActionSA in the Eastern Cape. He currently serves...
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the party's Federal Congress. On 8 April 2018, he lost to incumbent AtholTrollip. In September 2015, Msimanga was announced as the DA's mayoral candidate...
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African opposition parties to merge" Quoted in Hartley 2009. "DA's AtholTrollip gets Mazibuko's old portfolio | City Press". City Press. South Africa...
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