Okkie Terblanche

He represented the Western Cape in the National Council of Provinces (NCOP) from October 2015 to May 2019.

He relocated to the town of Mossel Bay and campaigned for the DA during the 2011 South African municipal elections.

[2] In October 2015, the DA caucus in the Western Cape Provincial Parliament nominated him to become a party representative in the NCOP, the upper house of the South African parliament.

DA parliamentary leader Mmusi Maimane appointed him as the Shadow Deputy Police Minister on 5 June 2019.

In February 2022, Terblanche was appointed as electoral head of the DA's Oudtshoorn constituency.