Political Career
During 1993, McBride was elected as a member of the Gauteng Provincial Executive Committee of the ANC, a position to which he was re-elected during 1995. He was part of the country's first democratic Provincial Legislature and served as an MP in the first democratic parliament in South Africa.
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