Benedicta Maria Van Minnen

National Assembly

benvm@mweb.co.za

@BenedictaVanMin

About Benedicta Maria Van Minnen

2020 committee attendance as mp

100% attendance rate

Attended 9 meetings out of 9

2019 committee attendance as mp

78% attendance rate

Attended 18 meetings out of 23

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Recent meetings attended

Public Accounts (SCOPA) — SAPS 2018/19 deviations, expansions, irregular, fruitless & wasteful expenditure: hearing — 17 Mar 2020
Public Accounts (SCOPA) — Non-Tabling of Annual Report: Department of Water and Sanitation — 11 Mar 2020
Public Accounts (SCOPA) — ESKOM Update on SCOPA recommendations on oversight — 4 Mar 2020
Public Accounts (SCOPA) — Inter-Ministerial Task Team & stakeholders on Eskom debt; with COGTA Minister — 4 Mar 2020
Public Accounts (SCOPA) — DPW & Property Management Trading Entity Annual Reports: hearing with Minister — 3 Mar 2020

All meetings attended

DISCLAIMER: This information has been obtained via the Parliamentary Monitoring Group. PMG makes every effort to compile reliable and comprehensive information, but does not claim that the data is 100% accurate and complete.

Currently

Member at Standing Committee on Public Accounts (National Assembly Committees) since 27th June 2019
Member at National Assembly (Parliament) since 22nd May 2019
Member at Democratic Alliance (DA) (Party)

Formerly

2nd Candidate at Democratic Alliance Regional Western Cape Election List 2019 (Election List) from 23rd April 2019 until 8th May 2019

Committee appearances

SAA outstanding matters: update 19 Feb 2020

Ms B van Minnen (DA) noted that the Minister was concerned about failing state-owned enterprises (SoEs). SoEs were being bailed out with taxpayers’ money, resulting in devastating cuts to departmental budgets. She understood the concern about employees, but were the SoEs not just grandiose welfare institutions? Would the economy not ...
ESKOM Update on SCOPA recommendations following oversight visit 18 Feb 2020

Ms B van Minnen (DA) stated that, during the oversight visit, the deviations had been a key issue. It was not so much the details but Members had wanted to know about the control measures. What was being done to ensure that when there was a deviation or variation, the ...
PRASA financial management and regression: follow-up meeting with Minister & Department of Transport 5 Feb 2020

Ms B van Minnen (DA) thought that the World Cup analogy was a good one because Cape Town had lost about 50 trainsets since then, worth about R400 million, and that was just in Cape Town, not taking into account KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng. How many arrests had there been? She ...
Department of Public Works on plan to address ESKOM debt, with Minister 4 Feb 2020

Ms B van Minnen (DA) directed her questions at National Treasury. She asked what was happening in the 122 municipalities which are not reporting in terms of Section 71. What is the process being used for these municipalities? She asked what DPWI was doing in instances where DPWI payments were ...
Plans to resolve the impasse between ESKOM and defaulting municipalities: input by COGTA, SALGA & National Treasury 3 Dec 2019

Ms B Van Minnen (DA) said that the only remaining explanation for non-payment was political. Eskom’s continued supply to non-paying municipalities was throwing good money after bad. Why was a firmer line not being taken? What was driving Eskom to continue supplying non-paying customers?

All Committee Appearances

Questions

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Plenary appearances

WEDNESDAY, 3 DECEMBER 2019 3 Dec 2019

House Chair, can the Minister assure the House that unions and organised labour will not be permitted to hijack potential necessary reforms and restructuring, including rightsizing the labour force, thereby placing at risk not only the future viability of Eskom but also the economy of the Republic as we are ...
- VOTE 24 6 Nov 2019

House Chair, this is the department responsible for the hot topic of land reform in South Africa. It has a mandate of creating and maintaining an equitable and sustainable land dispensation. It must act as a catalyst in rural development to ensure sustainable rural livelihoods, decent work and continued social ...

All Plenary Appearances

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