Michael Shackleton
South African politician
Michael Stephen Shackleton is a South African politician who served as a Member of the Gauteng Provincial Legislature from May 2019 to April 2022. Prior to serving in the provincial legislature, he was a Tshwane councillor and a Member of the National Assembly. Formerly a member of the Democratic Alliance, he resigned from the party on 28 April 2022 and joined ActionSA.
Background
Shackleton is from Centurion in Pretoria. His father died from cancer in 2001 just before he started high school and his mother died of heart failure in 2008, while he was at university. He developed a stutter after the death of his parents.
Shackleton has an LLB from the University of Pretoria and is an attorney. He also holds an LLM degree in constitutional and administrative law, a certificate in provincial and local government law, and a postgraduate certificate in corporate law.
Political career
In 2008 Shackleton joined the Democratic Alliance's student organisation at the University of Pretoria. He then became the leader of the party's student organisation at the university and joined the university's student representative council in 2010. He also graduated from the DA's Young Leaders Programme.
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