Cameron Mackenzie (politician)
Cameron Mackenzie (12 August 1960 – 7 July 2021) was a South African politician with the Democratic Alliance. He served as a Member of the National Assembly from 2014 to 2021. He was the Shadow Deputy Minister of Telecommunications and Postal Services from 2014 to 2019, and then the Shadow Deputy Minister of Communications and Digital Technologies from 2019 to 2021.
Born in Johannesburg, he studied Communications Sciences at the University of South Africa and earned several certificates. He worked in financial services and led a crisis communications firm, Sentinel 360. Mackenzie entered local politics in Johannesburg as an independent ward candidate in 2006, later joining the DA and becoming a DA PR councillor from 2009.
Elected to Parliament in 2014 and re-elected in 2019, he continued in his shadow cabinet roles. In January 2020, he survived a shooting during an attempted robbery in Dainfern, Johannesburg, and recovered after surgery. He died on 7 July 2021 in Fourways, Gauteng, from COVID-19. He was married to Lisa and had three children: Emma, Andrea, and Thorne.
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