Horatio Hendricks is a South African politician and former educator who has been a member of the Eastern Cape Provincial Legislature since 2023.

[3] Executive Mayor Elza van Lingen died from cancer in April 2018.

[4] In June 2021, Hendricks wrote to the provincial government to request that the municipality be declared a disaster area due to the severe drought.

[5] In September 2021, Hendricks was announced as the DA's mayoral candidate for the Kouga municipality ahead of the local government elections on 1 November 2021.

[10] Hendricks resigned as Kouga mayor and as a PR councillor on 26 June 2023 after he was selected to fill the casual vacancy that arose when DA MPL Edmund van Vuuren resigned from the Eastern Cape Provincial Legislature.