Heinrich Giovanni April

National Assembly

heinapril@me.com hapril@parliament.gov.za

About Heinrich Giovanni April

2020 committee attendance as mp

75% attendance rate

Attended 3 meetings out of 4

2019 committee attendance as mp

88% attendance rate

Attended 23 meetings out of 26

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Recent meetings attended

Small Business Development — SEDA & SEFA 2019/20 Quarter 3 performance & progress in assisting small enterprises; with Deputy Minister — 11 Mar 2020
Small Business Development — DSBD 2019/20 Quarter 3 performance; Blended Funding Model and plans for SA SME CEO FUND; with Minister — 4 Mar 2020
Small Business Development — Department of Small Business Development 2019/20 Revised Annual Performance Plan; First Term Committee Programme — 19 Feb 2020
Small Business Development — Processes and procedures in developing legislation; Summary and analysis of legislation administered by DSBD — 27 Nov 2019
Tourism — South African National Convention Bureau on bids and geographic spread of business events — 26 Nov 2019

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 Small Business Development (National Assembly Committees) since 27th June 2019
Alternate Member at Portfolio Committee on Tourism (National Assembly Committees) since 27th June 2019
Member at National Assembly (Parliament) since 22nd May 2019
Member at African National Congress (ANC) (Party)

Formerly

22nd Candidate at African National Congress Regional Gauteng Election List 2019 (Election List) from 23rd April 2019 until 8th May 2019

Committee appearances

Department of Small Business Development 2019/20 Revised Annual Performance Plan; First Term Committee Programme 19 Feb 2020

Mr H April (ANC) stressed that he was worried by the figures in the budget which seemed to indicate that half of the DSBD budget was being spent on administrative work, and was not getting down to the intended beneficiaries.
Bids and geographic spread of business events: South African National Convention Bureau briefing 26 Nov 2019

Mr H April (ANC) stated that he had attended a Meetings Africa meeting at Sandton Centre. It was clear to him that the occasion was not meant for the poor but for a different sphere of people. He had been invited to attend by the Chamber of Commerce. In his ...
DSBD 2019/10 Quarter 2 Performance & Action Plan on Auditor-General’s Findings and Recommendations 20 Nov 2019

Mr H April (ANC) asked why it took a month or two before an actual disbursement happened after the approvals were already done. On the issue of entrepreneurship training in schools, what was the amount of start-up capital that was given to learners, and what follow-up and mentoring programmes came ...
“The Unseen Sector”: Research paper by International Finance Corporation & World Bank 13 Nov 2019

Mr Kruger moved the amendments, which were seconded by Mr H April (ANC)
“The Unseen Sector”: Research paper by International Finance Corporation & World Bank 13 Nov 2019

Mr H April (ANC) agreed with Mr Langa. Having been a former businessman himself, he had also struggled tremendously to get any assistance from the government to start his business. When looking at the presentation, it was rather eye-opening to know about all of the systems that were in place ...

All Committee Appearances

Questions

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Plenary appearances

BULLYING AT JAN VILJOEN HIGH SCHOOL (Member's Statement) 26 Nov 2019

The ANC is advocating that gender- based violence is everyone's business and must be addressed by all of us every day. The recent sad story of bullying that occurred at Jan Viljoen Horskool [High School] and that went viral on social networks is a cause for concern. It is ...
CONSIDERATION OF BUDGETARY REVIEW AND RECOMMENDATION REPORT OF PORTFOLIO COMMITTEE ON MINERAL RESOURCES AND ENERGY ON VOTE 29 6 Nov 2019

Hon Deputy Speaker, I said, jy bieg [confess] nou. Bieg ... bieg. [Interjections.]

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