# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/dan-plato
# Generated: 2026-08-13T23:54:09.382Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/dan-plato"
name: "Dan Plato"
slug: "dan-plato"
description: "Daniel Plato, known as Dan Plato, is a South African politician and a former Member of the Western Cape Provincial Parliament. He served from June 2011 until October 2018 and again from January 2022 until February 2024. He is the former mayor of Cape Town, a position he held for two nonconsecutive terms from May 2009 until June 2011 and again from November 2018 until October 2021. From June 2011 to October 2018, he was the Western Cape Provincial Minister of Community Safety."
tagline: "Former mayor of Cape Town"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Dan_Plato.jpeg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "South Africa"
  isoCode: "ZA"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1960-10-05"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           43.46
  momentum:             0.5333333333333333
  historical:           5.498022666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Dan Plato"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Plato"
    title: "Dan Plato"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Plato"
    title: "Dan Plato"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Plato"
    title: "Dan Plato"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Plato"
    title: "Dan Plato"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Plato"
    title: "Dan Plato"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q379122"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump