Gloria Borman

Gloria Mary Borman is a South African retired politician who served as a Member of the National Assembly of South Africa for two nonconsecutive terms from 1999 until 2004 and again from 2009 to 2014. She represented the Democratic Party which later became the Democratic Alliance during her first term in Parliament and represented the African National Congress during her second and final term. Political career Borman was elected to the National Assembly of South Africa in the 1999 general election as a member of the Democratic Party which later became the Democratic Alliance. During her first term in parliament, she sat on the Provincial and Local Portfolio Committee, the Social Development Portfolio Committee and the Public Enterprises Portfolio Committee. She was one of two ANC MPs who abstained from voting for the Protection of State Information Bill in 2011 even after the party issued a three-line whip. She reasoned in an interview with the Cape Argus that the bill would hinder the fight against government corruption.

Borman unsuccessfully stood for re-election in the 2014 general election, having been ranked low on the ANC's provincial-to-national list. Personal life Borman lives in Westville, KwaZulu-Natal. By 2019, she had been married to her husband, Reverend John Borman, for 50 years.