Patrick Cecil McKenzie (born 8 December 1952) is a South African politician who represented the African National Congress (ANC) in the Western Cape Provincial Parliament until his retirement in November 2012, holding several positions in the Western Cape Executive Council during that time.
[1] He is Coloured and when he was eight, his family was forcibly removed from Cape Town's District Six under the apartheid-era Group Areas Act.
[2] He worked in management in the Cape Town City Council from 1977[3] and in 1983 he was elected to the Coloured chamber of the newly established Tricameral Parliament,[2] representing the Labour Party in the Bonteheuwel constituency.
Explaining his new party affiliation, McKenzie highlighted concerns about future economic misgovernance by the governing African National Congress (ANC):We're [as Coloureds] sort of caught between the devil and the deep blue sea.
However, he remained in his seat as an ordinary Member of the Provincial Legislature and he was serving as the ANC's spokesperson on community safety when he announced his retirement, effective at the end of November 2012.