She was also the ACDP's provincial leader in the Western Cape until 2012, when she left to join the Democratic Alliance (DA).
[2] She was viewed as a member of the moderate wing of the NP, most prominently led by Roelf Meyer.
[1]In particular, the Mail & Guardian said that Cupido had clashed with the NNP's Gerald Morkel, then the Premier of the Western Cape.
[5] She left the NNP in early 1999 and joined the DP, on whose ticket she was re-elected to the National Assembly; she represented the Western Cape constituency.
[6] She remained with the DP when it became the DA during the legislative term, and in early 2003, she resigned her seat in the National Assembly in order to fill a casual vacancy in the DA's caucus in the Western Cape Provincial Parliament.
[10] She said that this promise led to a "vicious personal attack on her by certain members of the homosexual lobby" and defended her remarks, saying that most South Africans "come from backgrounds that frown upon homosexual conduct" and that the "humanistic values" of the Constitution could not be imposed on the personal beliefs of Christians.