Tony Ehrenreich

Who is Tony Ehrenreich?

Tony Ehrenreich is a South African trade-unionist and regional secretary of the Western Cape region of COSATU. Ehrenreich joined COSATU in 1989, raising to become its National Deputy General-Secretary from 1999 to 2001. He represented COSATU at the World Trade Organization in Doha, International Confederation of Labour Trade Committee in Geneva; Organization of African Trade Union Unity in Ghana, and Unions Bi-lateral with French Trade Unions in Paris.

Ehrenreich was nominated by COSATU as the 2011 mayoral candidate for the ANC in the City of Cape Town in the 2011 municipal elections. Ehrenreich lost substantially to the Democratic Alliance mayoral candidate, Patricia De Lille. He is now the leader of the opposition in the Cape Town City Council where he is a member of Economic, Environmental and Spatial Planning Portfolio committee.