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Portfolio Committee On Basic Education
The Portfolio Committee on Basic Education is a portfolio committee of the National Assembly in the Parliament of South Africa. The remit of this committee is to oversee the work of the Department of Basic Education, Umalusi and the South African Council of Educators. Committee membership Following the May 8, 2019 general election, the committee was established for the 6th Parliament (2019–2024) on 27 June 2019 and Bongiwe Mbinqo-Gigaba of the African National Congress was elected chairperson on 2 July. The membership of the committee is as follows: The following people serve as alternate members: * Wynand Boshoff MP (Freedom Front Plus) *Bantu Holomisa MP (United Democratic Movement) * Chantel King MP ( Democratic Alliance) * Mzwakhe Sibisi MP (National Freedom Party) * Sophie Thembekwayo MP ( Economic Freedom Fighters) * Bafuze Yabo MP (African National Congress The African National Congress (ANC) is a social-democratic political party in South Africa. A liberation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Assembly Of South Africa
The National Assembly is the directly elected house of the Parliament of South Africa, located in Cape Town, Western Cape. It consists of four hundred members who are elected every five years using a party-list proportional representation system where half of the members are elected proportionally from nine provincial lists and the remaining half from national lists so as to restore proportionality. The National Assembly is presided over by a Speaker, assisted by a Deputy Speaker. The current Speaker is Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula who previously served as the Minister of Defence and Military Veterans. She was elected on 19 August 2021. The Deputy Speaker is Solomon Lechesa Tsenoli who has served in the post since his election on 21 May 2014. The National Assembly chamber was destroyed in a fire in January 2022. National Assembly sittings will now be held in the old Good Hope Chamber, which is within the precincts of parliament. Allocation The National Assembly seats are allocated ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
African Christian Democratic Party
African or Africans may refer to: * Anything from or pertaining to the continent of Africa: ** People who are native to Africa, descendants of natives of Africa, or individuals who trace their ancestry to indigenous inhabitants of Africa *** Ethnic groups of Africa *** Demographics of Africa *** African diaspora ** African, an adjective referring to something of, from, or related to the African Union ** Citizenship of the African Union ** Demographics of the African Union **Africanfuturism ** African art ** *** African jazz (other) ** African cuisine ** African culture ** African languages ** African music ** African Union ** African lion, a lion population in Africa Books and radio * ''The African'' (essay), a story by French author J. M. G. Le Clézio * ''The African'' (Conton novel), a novel by William Farquhar Conton * ''The African'' (Courlander novel), a novel by Harold Courlander * ''The Africans'' (radio program) Music * "African", a song by Peter Tosh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sophie Thembekwayo
Sophie Suzan Thembekwayo is a South African politician and a member of parliament for the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF). She was appointed to parliament in January 2017, replacing Hlayiseka Chewane. Thembekwayo was elected to a full term as a parliamentarian in 2019. She was re-elected at the 2024 general election. References External linksDr Sophie Suzan Thembekwayoat Parliament of South Africa The Parliament of the Republic of South Africa is South Africa's legislature; under the present Constitution of South Africa, the bicameral Parliament comprises a National Assembly and a National Council of Provinces. The current twenty-seve ... * Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Place of birth missing (living people) Economic Freedom Fighters politicians Members of the National Assembly of South Africa Women members of the National Assembly of South Africa {{Gauteng-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Freedom Party
The National Freedom Party (NFP) is a South African political party. It was launched on 25 January 2011 by Zanele kaMagwaza-Msibi, former chairperson of the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP), along with other former IFP members. Election results In the 2011 municipal election, the NFP received 2.4% of the votes cast in South Africa, and 10.4% of the votes cast in KwaZulu-Natal province. It won a majority of seats in the eDumbe Local Municipality and a plurality in Nongoma Local Municipality. Following the 2014 South African general election, the party's leader Magwaza-Msibi was appointed to the position of Deputy Minister of Science and Technology. The party was disqualified from participating in the 2016 municipal election as it had failed to pay the election fee to the Independent Electoral Commission. The party contested the 2019 general elections and its support levels dropped. The party lost four seats in the National Assembly, bringing their seat total to only two seat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mzwakhe Sibisi
Christopher Howard Mzwakhe Sibisi (27 July 1970 – 18 October 2023) was a South African educator and politician who served as a Member of the National Assembly of South Africa from May 2019 until his death. Sibisi was a member of the National Freedom Party. He served as the party's acting secretary-general in 2019. Education Sibisi held a matric certificate as well as a teacher's diploma. Politics Sibisi was a member of the National Freedom Party. He was appointed the acting secretary general of the party after incumbent Nhlanhlakayise Khubisa had resigned. He held this position until December 2019, when Canaan Mdletshe was elected to the position. Parliamentary career Sibisi was nominated to the National Assembly of South Africa after the general election held on 8 May 2019. He was sworn in as an MP on 22 May 2019. Committees On 27 June 2019, he received his committee assignments: *Portfolio Committee on Basic Education (Alternate Member) *Portfolio Committee on Cooperat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chantel King
Chantel King (born 2 December 1976) is a South African politician and educator. A member of the Democratic Alliance, she was sworn in as a Buffalo City councillor in July 2015. King became a Member of Parliament in November 2016. She then became Shadow Deputy Minister of Science and Technology in January 2017. In December 2020 King was appointed as Shadow Minister of Higher Education, Science and Technology. Career King was a teacher at the John Bisseker High School before she became active in politics. She joined the Democratic Alliance in 2015. King served as the branch secretary for ward 19 and as the women's network representative in the party's Buffalo City coastal constituency. In July 2015, she was appointed as a councillor of the Buffalo City Metropolitan Municipality. King resigned from the council in October 2016. On 8 November 2016, King was sworn in as a Member of the National Assembly, replacing Annette Lovemore. She became a member of the Portfolio Committee o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United Democratic Movement
The United Democratic Movement (UDM) is a centre-left, social-democratic, South African political party, formed by a prominent former National Party leader, Roelf Meyer (who has since resigned from the UDM), a former African National Congress and Transkei homeland leader, General Bantu Holomisa, and a former ANC Executive Committee member, John Taylor. It has an anti-separatist, pro- diversity platform; and supports an individualist South Africa with a strong moral sense, in both social and economic senses. Along with the much larger Democratic Alliance (DA) and other smaller parties, the UDM is currently part of the governing coalition in Johannesburg, South Africa's largest Metropolitan municipality. Mongameli Bobani was the Executive Mayor of the Nelson Mandela Bay Metropolitan Municipality from 2018 to 2019 and the first mayor from the UDM since the party governed King Sabata Dalindyebo Local Municipality (2000-2002). Formation The National Consultative Forum During ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bantu Holomisa
Bantubonke Harrington Holomisa (born 25 July 1955) is a South African Member of Parliament and President of the United Democratic Movement. Holomisa was born in Mqanduli, Cape Province. He joined the Transkei Defence Force in 1976 and had become a brigadier by 1985. Holomisa forced the resignation and exile of Prime Minister of Transkei George Matanzima in October 1987 and overthrew Matanzima's successor, Prime Minister Stella Sigcau in a bloodless coup d'état in December 1987. Holomisa then became the head of government of Transkei from 1987 to 1994, upon which Transkei was reintegrated into the "new" South Africa and Holomisa joined the African National Congress (ANC). National politics In 1994 Holomisa was elected to the National Executive Committee of the African National Congress, and was the Deputy Minister of Environment and Tourism of South Africa. Expulsion from the ANC Holomisa testified to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission that Stella Sigcau should be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Freedom Front Plus
The Freedom Front Plus (FF Plus; af, Vryheidsfront Plus, ''VF Plus'') is a right-wing political party in South Africa that was formed (as the Freedom Front) in 1994. It is led by Pieter Groenewald. Its current stated policy positions include abolishing affirmative action, replacing it with merit based appointments, and being firmly against the proposed expropriation without compensation land reform movement to protect the rights and interests of minorities, especially Afrikaners and Afrikaans speaking Coloureds. The party also supports greater self-determination for minorities throughout South Africa, and expressly has adopted Cape Independence as an official party position. History Origins as the Freedom Front (19942003) The Freedom Front was founded on 1 March 1994 by members of the Afrikaner community under Constand Viljoen, after he had left the Afrikaner Volksfront amidst disagreements. Seeking to achieve his goals through political means, Viljoen registered the Freedom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wynand Boshoff
Wynand Johannes Boshoff (born 26 May 1970) is a South African academic and politician from the Northern Cape serving as a Member of the National Assembly of South Africa for the Freedom Front Plus (FF+) since 2019. He has been serving as the Provincial Leader of the FF+ since 2015. He previously served as a municipal councillor of the Sol Plaatje Local Municipality from 2016 to 2019. Boshoff is the grandson of the assassinated apartheid-era Prime Minister of South Africa, Hendrik Verwoerd, who served from 1958 until 1966, and the son of Afrikaner enclave Orania founder, Carel Boshoff. Early life and education Boshoff was born in Pretoria in the Transvaal Province as one of the children of Carel Boshoff and Anna Boshoff, daughter of Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd. Verwoerd served as Prime Minister of South Africa (1958–1966) and is described as the "architect of apartheid". Verwoerd was assassinated in 1966 by parliamentary messenger Dimitri Tsafendas. Boshoff matriculated from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Désirée Van Der Walt
Désirée van der Walt (born 20 April 1956) is a South African politician who has been a member of the Limpopo Provincial Legislature since 2023, previously serving in the provincial legislature from 2010 to 2014. She was a member of the National Assembly of South Africa twice, serving from 2004 until 2010 and again from 2014 until 2023. She is a member of the Democratic Alliance. Early life Désirée van der Walt was born in Pietersburg in what was then the Transvaal Province. She is the eldest of four children. Her father died while she was a young child. She had the aspirations to become an educator, but could not due to financial constraints. She was then employed by a banking institution. She later married and gave birth to two daughters. Van der Walt briefly worked for the National Department of Education. Political career Van der Walt was elected to the Roodepoort City Council in 1995 and served until 2000. She was elected as a Tzaneen Municipality councillor in 200 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Democratic Alliance (South Africa)
The Democratic Alliance (, DA) is a South African list of political parties in South Africa, political party and the official opposition to the ruling African National Congress (ANC). The party is broadly centrism, centrist, and has been attributed both centre-left and centre-right policies. It is a member of Liberal International and the Africa Liberal Network. The DA traces its roots to the founding of the anti-apartheid Progressive Party (South Africa), Progressive Party in 1959, with many mergers and name changes between that time and the present. The DA ideologically shows a variety of liberal tendencies, including social liberalism, classical liberalism, and conservative liberalism. The current leader of the party is John Steenhuisen, who was announced as the new leader on 1 November 2020 after the party's 2020 Democratic Alliance Federal Congress, Federal Congress. He had previously acted as the interim leader of the party from November 2019 to November 2020. Helen Zille is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
