Mr Cilliers Brink

National Assembly

@BrinkCilliers

About Cilliers Brink

Mr Cilliers Brink is a member of the National Assembly. He currently serves in the Portfolio Committee on Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs of Parliament.

Brink has had an interest in politics since a young age. He joined the Democratic Alliance and was elected to the Tshwane city council in 2011. After the 2016 municipal elections, the DA gained control of Tshwane and Brink was appointed as the member of the mayoral committee for corporate and shared services, becoming the first DA politician to hold the post.

Prior to the 2019 South African general election held on 8 May, the DA revealed their candidate lists. Brink was placed tenth on the party's Gauteng list of National Assembly candidates, thirty-third on the party's National Assembly list and sixty-seventh on the party's provincial list for the provincial legislature. He was elected to the National Assembly on the party's National Assembly list. Brink was sworn into office on 22 May 2019.

On 5 June 2019, he was appointed Shadow Deputy Minister of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs. Brink became a member of the Portfolio Committee on Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs on 27 June 2019.

On 5 December 2020, he was appointed as Shadow Minister for the portfolio, succeeding Haniff Hoosen, in the Shadow Cabinet of John Steenhuisen.[10]

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2021 committee attendance as mp

79% attendance rate

Attended 46 meetings out of 58

2020 committee attendance as mp

80% attendance rate

Attended 66 meetings out of 82

2019 committee attendance as mp

72% attendance rate

Attended 13 meetings out of 18

Attendance Methodology

Recent meetings attended

Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs — Disaster Management Amendment Bill: Stakeholder engagement — 7 Sep 2021
Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs — Election of Chairperson — 31 Aug 2021
Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs — Department of Cooperative Governance on State of Local Government Report – Local government support and interventions package; with Minister — 24 Aug 2021
Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs — KZN Tourism petition; Ward 52 petition: follow-up with eThekwini on lack of progress — 10 Aug 2021
Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs — Follow-up meeting with Eastern Cape Provincial COGTA on 2020 initiation fatalities; with Deputy Minister — 5 Aug 2021

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 Portfolio Committee on Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (National Assembly Committees) since 27th June 2019
Member at National Assembly (Parliament) since 22nd May 2019
Member at Democratic Alliance (DA) (Party)

Formerly

33rd Candidate at Democratic Alliance National Election List 2019 (Election List) from 23rd April 2019 until 8th May 2019
10th Candidate at Democratic Alliance Regional Gauteng Election List 2019 (Election List) from 23rd April 2019 until 8th May 2019
67th Candidate at Democratic Alliance Provincial Gauteng Election List 2019 (Election List) from 23rd April 2019 until 8th May 2019

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Parliament Register of Members' Interests 2019 [Source]

PENSIONS

Public/Private	Source
Sanlam Private Wealth (Investment Manager)	Drawdown from living annuity (Investment linked)

SHARES AND OTHER FINANCIAL INTERESTS

Nature	Name of Company	Number of Shares	Nominal Value
1 Pay premiums on this insurance policy and a party to underlying buy and sell agreement.	Paint Pot Phalaborwa cc(1997/037838/23)	80% members’ interests to be acquired with insurance. Funded buy – and sell agreement	R1 250 000.00 (Subject to periodic valuations)

BENEFITS

Description of Benefit	Source
Special rates granted to MP’s as platinum card members on car rentals.	Europcar (Car rental agency)
Access card to slow lounge at SA Airports for MP’s	British Airways

DIRECTORSHIP AND PARTNERSHIPS

Type of Business Activity	Directorship/Partnership in any Corporate Body
Dormant/shelf company – never traded	Shackleton Brink Speech Master (Pty) LTD
Dormant/shelf company – never traded	Brinkville (Pty) LTD

TRUSTS

Name of Trust	Trustee/Beneficiary	Registration Number	Details of all benefits derived
Brinkorp Trust	Trustee/Beneficiary	IT 2402/12	Trust has no assets and do not trade – Beneficiary of distributions as per trust deed (nil).

Committee appearances

Disaster Management Amendment Bill: Stakeholder engagement 7 Sep 2021

Mr C Brink (DA) said that interactions with stakeholders were very important, especially when new information was presented. To FORSA, he noted the recommendation for compulsory public consultation, and requested more information on the case laws that had been mentioned. He asked where the public consultation process would fit in ...
Department of Cooperative Governance on State of Local Government Report – Local government support and interventions package 24 Aug 2021

Mr C Brink (DA) said that the Intergovernmental Support, Monitoring and Intervention Bill was awaited. To the team that was involved in the process of the Bill, he asked whether national government had considered the effect that local government legislation had had on municipalities to deliver sustainable services, especially those ...
Uthukela Petition; Ward 52 petition: Follow-up meeting with EThekwini Metro on non-implementation of recommendations 10 Aug 2021

Mr C Brink (DA) said that it would not be fair to refer the petitioners back to the DoT Director-General but rather the suggestions can be directly forwarded to NICOC and NCCC. Concrete proposals need to be the focus of discussions. He referred to the bus operator who renewed his ...
Report from North West COGHSTA MEC on issues raised during committee oversight visit 3 Aug 2021

Mr C Brink (DA) said that, if there is an intervention in a municipality that is failing in its executive obligations, that intervention must be suited to the purpose of solving a problem. If the council is the reason why the municipality cannot perform its executive obligations, then the most ...
Meeting with JB Marks Local Municipality on issues raised during oversight visit 20 Jul 2021

Mr C Brink (DA) said he had heard that the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) and MM had been suspended after an investigation by the Special Investigating Unit (SIU) into Covid-19 expenditure, yet this information had not been shared by the Municipal Council. He asked whether this was true, and if ...

All Committee Appearances

Questions

Questions asked to the Minister of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs 14 Oct 2021

Whether, with regard to the six District Hubs that are envisioned as part of the implementation of the District Development Model, she will furnish Mr C Brink with a plan and/or estimate indicating the (a) capital cost of establishing each of the District Hubs, (b) annual operational cost of running ...
Questions asked to the Minister of Cooperative Governance and Traditional AffairsQUESTION 27 Aug 2021

What is the current status of the (a) Local Government Leadership Academy and (b) Municipal Leadership Development Programme launched by the erstwhile Department of Provincial and Local Government in 2007?
Questions asked to the Minister of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs 25 Jun 2021

Whether, in light of the one-year anniversary of the implementation of the different levels of lockdown in the Republic, the Government has ever conducted and/or outsourced a comprehensive cost-benefit analysis of every lockdown level in order to determine whether the costs of the various lockdown levels outweighed the benefits or ...

All Questions and Answers

Plenary appearances

UNGQONGQOSHE KAHULUMENI WOKUBAMBISANA KANYE NEZINDABA 27 Nov 2019

Deputy Speaker, Minister obviously the national spatial development framework depends for its implementation on different spheres of government
reaching crucial agreements. One of the ways, municipalities can redress the injustices of the past is to bring people closer to work and social amenities. The City of Cape Town has identified ...
UNGQONGQOSHE KAHULUMENI WOKUBAMBISANA KANYE NEZINDABA 27 Nov 2019

Deputy Speaker, I understand the Minister's answer that intervention is foremost a provincial competence but if a provincial intervention fails or does not happen obviously the Minister must step in or at least engage with the matter.
The Eastern Cape provincial government has accused the council of the Nelson Mandela ...

All Plenary Appearances

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