How well do you know your MPs? MP Corner features blog entries from your favourite MPs who have agreed to "get personal". Find out how they got into politics and what their message is for you.
1. How did you come to join your political party and become an MP?
I joined the Democratic Alliance in 2009 and worked on local election campaigns before starting work as a political support officer at the City of Cape Town. I was elected as a ward councillor in 2011 ...
1. How did you come to join your political party and become an MP?
I joined the DA in 2011 through the Democratic Alliance Students' Organisation at Nelson Mandela University, where I served as branch Chairperson and the Secretary General of the Student Representative's Council. I was later elected a ...
1.How did you come to join your political party and become an MP?
I had been involved in charity work in my spare time for many years and decided to enter politics after successfully lobbying to prevent the unfair closure of centres for disabled children in Gauteng. The DA is ...
1. How did you come to join your political party and become an MP?
In 1996 I was expelled from the ANC after testifying at the Truth and Reconciliation Commission about issues and activities concerning the Transkei. I refused to retract my testimony arguing that my testimony was historical knowledge.I ...
"I choose to believe there is more good than bad in South Africa, and if everyone chooses to run away, who will be left to stay and fight for what’s right and just."
1. How did you come to join your political party and become an MP?
I am a ...
"I think Covid-19 really showed how Parliament oversight was neglected and made to be a spectator instead of holding the Executive to account."
What is your political background? How did you come to join your political party and become an MP?
I come from an academic background rather than a ...
"Whatever our ideological, policy and other differences, we need to work much more closely together to achieve developmental goals that we share in common that are in the interests of all the people but primarily the poor and disdavantaged."
Question 1: What is your political background? How did you come ...
"I am accessible. An MP is not someone up there that nobody knows. My constituency knows me and I serve my people."
What is your political background? How did you come to join your political party and become an MP?
I was an activist in the Democratic Party (DP) pre-94. ...
"While South Africans are welcome to physically come to Parliament, I don’t believe their inputs into the work of Parliament are taken into account when decisions such as passing bills are made."
1. What is your political background?
My political career started in 2014, when I made myself available as ...
"We need to get people informed about Parliament. At the moment, people do not have information. Some of them do not know that they can petition to Parliament."
1. What is your political background? How did you come to join your political party and become an MP?
I come from ...