Patricia Sulcas Kreiner
Mayor of Cape Town
In office
1993–1995
Preceded byClive Keegan
Succeeded byTheresa Solomons
Personal details
Born
Patricia Faith Kahn
NationalitySouth African
SpouseLouis Kreiner
OccupationPolitician

Patricia Sulcas Kreiner is the former Mayor of Cape Town, she served from 1993 to 1995, during the country's transition from white-minority rule to a multi-racial democracy. She became the second woman to hold the position after Joyce Newton-Thompson. She also became the first Jewish woman to hold the position. Her late husband Louis Kreiner previously held the position from 1979 to 1981, followed by her brother-in-law, Sol Kreiner, serving as mayor from 1983 to 1985.[1][2][3]

In 1994 she was appointed to the board of the Cape Town Philharmonic Orchestra.[4] She also initiated Cape Town's sister city agreement with Atlanta in the United States.[5] As the AIDS epidemic devastated many in the gay community, she showed solidarity by attending the funerals of victims.[6][7]

References

  1. ↑ Louis Kreiner Cape Town Jewish Cemeteries Maintenance Board. Retrieved on 26 December 2023
  2. ↑ Jerusalem Day in Cape Town Jewish Telegraphic Agency. 20 May 1980
  3. ↑ Cape Town: Culture and Community Reform Judaism. Retrieved on 26 December 2023
  4. ↑ The History of the Cape Town Orchestra: 1914-1997 University of South Africa. January 2000
  5. ↑ Cape Town/Atlanta Propose Sister City Relationship Global Atlanta. 10 October 1994
  6. ↑ Lategan, Herman (2023). Son of a Whore: A memoir. Cape Town: Penguin Books. p. 7. ISBN 9781776391240.
  7. ↑ Where Have All the Flowers Gone? – remembering those we loved and lost to the Aids pandemic Daily Maverick. 28 November 2022
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