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Portfolio Committee On Police
The Portfolio Committee on Police is a portfolio committee of the National Assembly in the Parliament of South Africa. As of July 2019, Tina Joemat-Pettersson of the African National Congress serves as chair of the committee. Mandate The committee oversees the Department of Police and the South African Police Service (SAPS) and other statutory entities, including the Independent Police Investigative Directorate (IPID), the Civilian Secretariat for Police Service, the Private Security Industry Regulatory Authority (PSIRA), the National Forensic Oversight and Ethics Board (DNA Board), and the Office of the DPCI Judge. Membership The following MPs serve as alternate members: *Princess Faku MP ( African National Congress) * Mandla Galo MP ( African Independent Congress) *Tim Mashele MP ( African National Congress) * Kenneth Meshoe MP (African Christian Democratic Party) * Munzoor Shaik Emam MP (National Freedom Party) * Henry Shembeni MP (Economic Freedom Fighters The Econo ... [...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] |
Ntaoleng Peacock
Ntaoleng Patricia Peacock (born 2 February 1978) is a South African politician who served as a Member of the National Assembly till 2024. Peacock is a member of the African National Congress. Parliamentary career Peacock is a member of the African National Congress. She was selected to represent the party in the National Assembly of South Africa following the general election held on 8 May 2019. She was sworn in as a Member of Parliament on 22 May 2019. On 27 June, she received her committee assignment. Committee membership *Portfolio Committee on Police References External linksProfileat 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 1978 births Members of the African National Congress Members of the National Assembly of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Shembeni
Henry Andries Shembeni is a South African politician. He was elected to the National Assembly in 2019 as a member of the Economic Freedom Fighters. From 6 May 2020 to 28 February 2023, Shembeni had served on the Portfolio Committee on Police as a regular member. He was then demoted to being an alternate member of the portfolio committee. On 6 June 2023, '' News24'' had reported that the EFF had fired Shembeni as a Member of the National Assembly. References External linksMr Henry Andries Shembeniat 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 th ... [...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 seats. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Munzoor Shaik Emam
Ahmed Munzoor Shaik Emam is a South African politician. He has been a Member of the National Assembly of South Africa for the Allied Movement For Change (AM4C) Emam is the party's President. Political career Emam was a member of ACTSTOP in Johannesburg and later joined the United Democratic Front. He was also a member of the Inkatha Freedom Party, but resigned from the party to be part of the establishment of the National Freedom Party. Currently Shaik Emam is the President of the Allied Movement for Change (AM4C) contesting the 29 May 202 Elections Nationally in South Africa. Emam controversially stated in Parliament in February 2024 "that the City of Cape Town will be a bloodbath and that we will not allow Zionists to make this a Jewish State." Parliamentary career Emam was elected to the National Assembly in the 2014 general election. He took office as an MP on 21 May 2014. During his first term, he was a member of the following committees: public accounts, approp ... [...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] |
Kenneth Meshoe
Kenneth Rasalabe Joseph Meshoe (born 18 January 1954) is a South African evangelist, politician, reverend and teacher. He has been serving as the inaugural leader of the African Christian Democratic Party, a Christian democratic political party, since 1993. He became a Member of Parliament in 1994 and has since been re-elected five times. He is one of the longest-serving MPs. Early life, education and career Meshoe was born on 18 January 1954 in Pretoria, South Africa. He matriculated from high school in 1972 and went on to study at the University of the North where he obtained a Secondary Teachers Diploma in 1975. He then proceeded to work as a teacher for the next few years. He and his wife, Lydia, joined the Christ For All Nations in 1976. In February 1980, he found employment as one of Reinhard Bonnke's associate evangelists. He completed his second-year Theological Diploma at the Shekinah Bible Institute in Kingsport in the US state of Tennessee in 1987. He established h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tim Mashele
Timothy Victor Mashele is a South African politician. He is a member of the National Assembly of South Africa. Mashele is a member of the African National Congress (ANC). Education Mashele graduated from the University of South Africa with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Government Administration and Development. Political career In 2012, he was elected as the provincial chairperson of the South African Students Congress (SASCO) in Mpumalanga. He served as the regional secretary of the African National Congress Youth League from 2013 until his election as the provincial chairperson in 2016, a position he currently holds. In 2015, he became a regional executive committee (REC) member of the African National Congress. During the 74th celebration of the ANC youth league in Middelburg, Mashele called on members to not nominate older people to parliament or legislatures because they sleep during debates. Mashele was placed second on the ANC's list of Mpumalanga candidates for the Nat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
African Independent Congress
The African Independent Congress (AIC) is a minor political party in South Africa. Founded in Matatiele on December 12, 2005, the AIC was a protest against the location of the area within the boundaries of the Eastern Cape province rather than KwaZulu-Natal as a result of the 12th Amendment of the Constitution of South Africa put forward by the ANC government. The disputed boundary change went to court; it was eventually confirmed by the 13th Amendment of the Constitution of South Africa. The AIC won ten seats in the Matatiele municipality in the 2006 local government elections, seven in the 2011 elections, and one seat in the Eastern Cape provincial legislature in the 2009 elections. In the 2014 South African general election, the AIC received 97,462 votes, 0.53% of the total, winning three seats in the National Assembly. It retained its seat in the Eastern Cape Provincial Legislature. The party did not run a candidate in seven of the nine provinces, and was thought to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mandla Galo
Mandlenkosi Phillip Galo (born 5 July 1962) is a South African politician who serves as the inaugural president of the African Independent Congress (AIC), a party he and other disgruntled ANC members founded over a demarcation dispute in 2005. He was elected to the National Assembly of South Africa in 2014 and won re-election to a second term in 2019 File:2019 collage v1.png, From top left, clockwise: Hong Kong protests turn to widespread riots and civil disobedience; House of Representatives votes to adopt articles of impeachment against Donald Trump; CRISPR gene editing first used to experim .... References External linksMr Mandlenkosi Phillip Galo – Parliament of South Africa [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Princess Faku
Princess Faku (born 1981 or 1982) is a South African politician who has been mayor of the Buffalo City Metropolitan Municipality since March 2023. Prior to serving as Mayor, Faku had been a member of the National Assembly between 2019 and 2021 and was a Deputy Mayor from November 2021 to March 2023. Faku is a member of the African National Congress. Career Faku joined the National Youth Development Agency in 2010 when the organisation merged with the Umsobomvu Youth Fund. She held multiple leadership positions in the agency, including the positions of senior business development officer and manager for eight out of the nine district offices the agency has in the Eastern Cape. Political career As a member of the African National Congress, Faku served as the secretary of an ANC branch in the Buffalo City region and as treasurer of the party's youth league in the Eastern Cape. By 2019, she was a member of the National Executive Committee (NEC) of the youth league and a member of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrew Whitfield (politician)
Andrew Grant Whitfield (born 24 November 1982) is a South African politician who has been the Shadow Minister of Police since 2019 and a Member of the National Assembly for the Democratic Alliance since 2019 and previously from 2014 to 2016. Having served as the provincial chairman of the DA in the Eastern Cape from 2017 to 2023, he is currently the provincial leader of the party and the leader of the party's Tsitsi-Kouga Constituency. Whitfield had previously served on the Nelson Mandela Bay city council and in the Eastern Cape Provincial Legislature. Political career Whitfield joined the Democratic Alliance and was elected to the Nelson Mandela Bay city council in 2011. After the general election in May 2014, he was sworn in as a Member of the National Assembly. The following month, he was assigned to the Portfolio Committee on Tourism. After the 2016 municipal elections, Whitfield returned to the Nelson Mandela Bay council as the DA became the largest party. The DA's Atho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
