- Source: Patricia Sulcas Kreiner
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.
In 1994 she was appointed to the board of the Cape Town Philharmonic Orchestra. She also initiated Cape Town's sister city agreement with Atlanta in the United States. As the AIDS epidemic devastated many in the gay community, she showed solidarity by attending the funerals of victims.
