Sybil Seaton | |
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Member of the National Assembly | |
In office May 1994 –May 2009 | |
Constituency | KwaZulu-Natal |
Personal details | |
Born | 14 August 1948 |
Citizenship | South Africa |
Political party | African National Congress |
Sybil Anne Seaton (born 14 August 1948) is a retired South African politician who represented the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) in the National Assembly from 1994 to 2009,serving the KwaZulu-Natal constituency.
Seaton was born on 14 August 1948. [1] She was elected to represent the IFP in the National Assembly in the 1994 general elections [2] and served three terms,gaining re-election in 1999 [1] and 2004; [3] she represented the KwaZulu-Natal constituency. During her second term,she was the deputy chief whip of the IFP caucus; [4] she continued in that position in her third term [5] and later became the party's spokesman on correctional services. [6] In that capacity she argued that Parliament should "reconsider" the abolition of capital punishment. [7]
During her time in Parliament,Seaton spearheaded a campaign to improve MPs' remuneration packages. She raised the inadequacy of the prevailing package as early as 2003. [8] [9] In 2008,she drafted a private member's bill to increase MPs' pension, [10] which received cross-partisan support and led to the formation of a multi-party task team that met with President Thabo Mbeki over pension packages. [11] She retired ahead of the 2009 general election. [12]
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