Clive Hatch was unanimously elected as the first Provincial Leader of the Democratic Alliance of Mpumalanga at the Party's inaugural congress in Middelburg on 19th October 2002
Clive Hatch has been an active participant in South African Political system since he was eligible to vote in 1968. Although he has actively served the Party on the national structures he has been, based in Emalahleni (Witbank) in the geographic area that is currently known as the Province of Mpumalanga, the most successful campaign ever for the DA in the Witbank municipal council, he retired from active participation in elective politics but certainly not from commenting or writing about it.