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

World Trade Organization

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 in Doha

Doha

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, International Confederation of Labour Trade Committee in Geneva

Geneva

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; Organization of African Trade Union Unity in Ghana

Ghana

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, and Unions Bi-lateral with French Trade Unions in Paris

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Ehrenreich was nominated by COSATU as the 2011 mayoral candidate for the ANC

ANC

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 in the City of Cape Town

City of Cape Town

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 in the In the 2011 municipal elections.. Ehrenreich lost substantially to the Democratic Alliance mayoral candidate, Patricia De Lille

Patricia de Lille

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. He is now the leader of the opposition in the Cape Town City Council

Cape Town City Council

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where he is a member of Economic, Environmental and Spatial Planning Portfolio committee.