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Western Cape (National Assembly Of South Africa Constituency)
Western Cape ( af, Wes-Kaap; xh, iNtshona-Koloni) is one of the nine multi-member constituencies of the National Assembly of South Africa, the lower house of the Parliament of South Africa, the national legislature of South Africa. The constituency was established in 1994 when the National Assembly was established by the Interim Constitution following the end of Apartheid. It is conterminous with the province of Western Cape. The constituency currently elects 23 of the 400 members of the National Assembly using the closed party-list proportional representation electoral system. At the 2019 general election it had 3,128,567 registered electors. Electoral system Western Cape currently elects 23 of the 400 members of the National Assembly using the closed party-list proportional representation electoral system. Constituency seats are allocated using the largest remainder method with a Droop quota. Election results Summary Detailed 2019 Results of the 2019 general election held o ... [...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] |
Khaya Magaxa
Khayalethu Elvis "Khaya" Magaxa (born 29 January 1964) is a South African politician who is the Chairperson of the Portfolio Committee on Public Enterprises and a Member of the National Assembly of South Africa for the ruling African National Congress (ANC). He became an MP in May 2019. Magaxa was elected as a Member of the Western Cape Provincial Parliament in 2014, and served as the Leader of the Opposition from 2016 to 2019. He was the acting provincial chair of the ANC in the Western Cape The Western Cape is a province of South Africa, situated on the south-western coast of the country. It is the fourth largest of the nine provinces with an area of , and the third most populous, with an estimated 7 million inhabitants in 2020 ... from 2016 to 2019. References External linksMr Khayalethu Elvis Magaxa – People's Assembly [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nazier Paulsen
Mogamad Nazier Paulsen is a Western Cape-based Member of the National Assembly for the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF). He previously served as a Member of the Western Cape Provincial Parliament.EFF MP allegedly can’t wait to ‘moer’ the BLF in parliament ''The Citizen'', 8 May 2019. Retrieved on 16 August 2019. Early life and career Nazier Paulsen and his family had previously been part of the . Paulsen was a member of the[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Siphokuhle Patrein
Siphokuhle Patrein (born 9 October 1990) is a South African politician and a former member of the National Assembly of South Africa from the Western Cape. Patrein was a member of the African National Congress. Political career Patrein was elected as the deputy provincial secretary of the African National Congress Youth League in 2018. In 2019 Patrein stood for election to the South African National Assembly as 7th on the ANC's Western Cape regional list. At the election, she won a seat in parliament. After the election, Patrein was elected to serve on the 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 commit .... Patrein was expelled from the ANC and consequently ceased being a member of parliament on 13 March 2024.https://static.pmg.org.za/240319_NA_MEMBE ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Economic Freedom Fighters
The Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) is a South African left-wing to far-left pan-Africanist and Marxist–Leninist political party. It was founded by expelled former African National Congress Youth League (ANCYL) President Julius Malema, and his allies, in 2013. Malema is President of the EFF, heading the Central Command Team which serves as the central structure of the party. It is currently the third-largest party in both houses of the Parliament of South Africa, South African Parliament. History Foundation At a 26 July 2013 press briefing in Soweto, Malema announced that the new party had over 1000 members, double the 500 required for registration with the Electoral Commission of South Africa, Independent Electoral Commission (IEC). The EFF is now registered with the IEC, after an objection to its registration by the Freedom Front Plus (FF+) was dismissed in September 2013. Splinters and infighting In 2015, the EFF suspended Member of parliament, MP Lucky Twala and ex ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Natasha Ntlangwini
Elsabe Natasha Ntlangwini (née Louw) is a South African politician. A member of the Economic Freedom Fighters, she has served as a Member of the National Assembly of South Africa since May 2014. Early life and education Ntlangwini was born in Pearston in the Cape Province. Her father worked as a boilermaker, while her mother was employed as a cook at a boarding school. In 2002, she matriculated from Parkdene High School. She completed a one-year course on quality control through the University of South Africa. Political career Ntlangwini was involved in both the ANC's youth league and women's league. In 2013, she joined the Economic Freedom Fighters after she resigned from her job. The next year, she was elected to the National Assembly as a party representative. She was re-elected 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 agai ... [...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] |
Corné Mulder
Cornelius Petrus Mulder is a South African politician. He serves as a member of the National Assembly of South Africa. Early life Corné Mulder graduated from Potchefstroom University, with a B.Juris degree, followed by an LL.B in 1982. He later completed doctoral research at the Institute for Advanced Legal Studies at the University of London and the Max-Planck-Institut für Ausländisches öffentliches Recht und Völkerrecht at Heidelberg, Germany. Career Since 1994, Mulder has served as a member of the National Assembly of South Africa, where he represents Western Cape. He is a member of 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 a ..., where he serves as chief parliamentary whip and Western Cape's leader. References Living people People from the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Linda Nellie Moss
Linda Nellie Moss is a South African politician who served as a Member of Parliament (MP) for the African National Congress The African National Congress (ANC) is a social-democratic political party in South Africa. A liberation movement known for its opposition to apartheid, it has governed the country since 1994, when the first post-apartheid election install .... Moss resigned from the National Assembly with effect from 2 March 2023. Ebrahim Patel succeeded her. References See also * List of National Assembly members of the 27th Parliament of South Africa Living people Members of the National Assembly of South Africa Women members of the National Assembly of South Africa African National Congress politicians 21st-century South African women politicians 21st-century South African politicians Year of birth missing (living people) {{WesternCape-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zakhele Mbhele
Zakhele Mbhele (born 9 November 1984) is a South African politician. A Member of Parliament of the Democratic Alliance in the National Assembly, Mbhele served as Media Liaison Officer for Western Cape Premier Helen Zille from November 2011 to May 2014. In the 2014 general election, Mbhele was elected to parliament. He is currently (as of July 2016) DA shadow minister of police. Personal life and education Mbhele is openly gay, making him the first openly gay Black member of parliament. He is one of a number of openly LGBT members of parliament, alongside fellow DA MPs Mike Waters and Ian Ollis. While attending University of Witwatersrand, he led ACTIVATE, the university’s LGBT campus group, and later served on the board of Joburg Pride. He was cited by the ''Mail & Guardian The ''Mail & Guardian'' is a South African weekly newspaper and website, published by M&G Media in Johannesburg, South Africa. It focuses on political analysis, investigative reporting, Southern Afr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phineas Masipa
Noko Phineas Masipa (born 16 October 1968) is a South African politician who is a Member of Parliament since the 2019 general election for the Democratic Alliance. In August 2022, Masipa was appointed as the Shadow Minister of Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development Education Masipa has a Master of Business Administration degree from the Management College of Southern Africa (MANCOSA), a Bachelor of Commerce degree from the University of South Africa, and a national diploma in nursing from the Sarleh Dollie Nursing College in collaboration with the University of the Western Cape. Additionally, Masipa did a short course on the business of wine at the University of Cape Town Graduate School of Business. He holds a certificate in leadership from the University of Pretoria and a certificate in marketing from the Cape Peninsula University of Technology. At Trinity College Dublin and University of Limerick in the Republic of Ireland, he fulfilled an International Ireland Lea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kobus Marais
Kobus Marais is a South African politician, Member of Parliament with the Democratic Alliance, and the current Shadow Minister of Defence and Military Veterans. Education and family life Marais was born on 26 June 1959 as Sarel Jacobus Francois Marais in Worcester, Western Cape, where he lives with his wife and two children. He obtained a Bachelors of Economic and a Master of Business and Administration degree from Stellenbosch University. He also studied at the Cape Wine Academy and completed a Master Mentorship Course with the Department of Agriculture. Early career He started his career in corporate banking and went on to work in the wine industry in 1989 in various capacities including a partnership in a wine exports business. He then formed his own consultancy, BEFCOM, which specialised in business and marketing strategy, international trade and Black Economic Empowerment (charters, codes of good practice, Agri-agreements, BEE charters, industry scorecards, etc.). In 2006 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
