{"id":130,"date":"2013-09-09T18:50:48","date_gmt":"2013-09-09T18:50:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/otp\/2013\/09\/09\/profile-cde-sylvia-elizabeth-lucas\/"},"modified":"2013-09-09T18:50:48","modified_gmt":"2013-09-09T18:50:48","slug":"profile-cde-sylvia-elizabeth-lucas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/otp\/2013\/09\/09\/profile-cde-sylvia-elizabeth-lucas\/","title":{"rendered":"Profile : Sylvia Elizabeth Lucas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>PREMIER OF THE NORTHERN CAPE PROVINCE<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sylvia Lucas became involved in political activities in 1980  whilst schooling at Carlton van Heerden high school in Upington.<\/li>\n<li>1983 \u2013 1995 As a community Activist was part of leading the rent boycotts in Rosedale community, Upington.\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>As ANC leader in the branch, formed part of the delegations to the  Transitional Council to ensure communities get prepaid electricity when  they could not afford conventional electrical power.<\/li>\n<li>Initiated the Oasis Centre for People with disabilities under the banner of the ANC Women\u2019s League during late 1990&#8217;s.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Founding member of Radio Riverside community radio in Upington.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Served as Executive trustee of the Northern Cape Educare Trust and a  member of the Ikemeleng Trust that served Free State and Northern Cape.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>1993 &#8211; 1994 ANC Women\u2019s League \u2013 Branch Chairperson \u2013 Rosedale Branch<br \/>1994 \u2013 1996 ANC and ANC Women\u2019s League REC member \u2013 Upington region<br \/>1996 \u2013 1998 ANC Women\u2019s League \u2013 Regional Secretary \u2013 Upington region<br \/>1998 &#8211; 2000 ANC Women\u2019s League \u2013 Regional Chairperson \u2013 Upington region<br \/>1996 &#8211; 2000 ANC REC and RWC Member \u2013 Upington Region<br \/>2000 \u2013 2004 Became the first Regional Chairperson of the merged Upington and part of Kuruman Region, known as Siyanda region.<br \/>2004 \u2013 2007 ANC PEC-member<br \/>2000 \u2013 2007 ANC Women\u2019s League PEC and PWC Member <br \/>2006 \u2013 2008 ANC Women\u2019s League acting provincial secretary serving on the Women\u2019s League NEC in an -ex Officio capacity<br \/>2008 \u2013 Date\u00a0 Deputy Provincial chairperson of the ANC Women\u2019s League<br \/>2008 &#8211; 2012 ANC PEC and PWC \u2013 member \u2013 re-elected<br \/>2012 \u2013 Date Re-elected ANC PEC and PWC-member<\/p>\n<p><strong>PUBLIC POSITIONS AND WORK HISTORY<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1983 \u2013 1999 Public Servant \u2013 Department Social Development<br \/>1995 \u2013 1999 ANC PR Councilor \u2013 Upington Municipality<br \/>1999 \u2013 2000 Community Development Worker &#8211; \/Khara Hais Municipality SAMWU Shopsteward\u00a0 and Chairperson of Upington Local<br \/>2000 \u2013 2004 Member of the Provincial legislature\u00a0\u00a0 <br \/>2002 \u2013 2004 Elected as Exco member of the Association of Public Accounts Committees<br \/>2004 \u2013 2009 Member of the Provincial legislature, serving as ANC \u2013 Whip<br \/>2004 \u2013 2006 Elected as Deputy General Secretary of Association of Public Accounts Committees<br \/>2006 \u2013 2009 Elected as General Secretary of Association of Public Accounts Committees<br \/>2009 \u2013 Date Member of EXCO \u2013 Environment and Nature Conservation<br \/>2013\u00a0\u00a0 23rd\u00a0 May 2013 Appointed as Premier of the Northern Cape Province<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PREMIER OF THE NORTHERN CAPE PROVINCE Sylvia Lucas became involved in political activities in 1980 whilst schooling at Carlton van Heerden high school in Upington. 1983 \u2013 1995 As a community Activist was part of leading the rent boycotts in Rosedale community, Upington.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/otp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/otp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/otp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/otp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/otp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/otp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/otp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/otp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/otp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}