Mathew John Cuthbert

National Assembly

mj_cuthbert@yahoo.com

@TheMatCuthbert

About Mathew John Cuthbert

Mr Cuthbert serves as the DA’s Shadow Deputy Minister for Trade, Industry and Economic Development. Some of his achievements include being the youngest councillor in Ekhurhuleni. He holds a Bachelor of Political Science, a Post-graduate diploma in Business Administration at the Wits Business School, and is currently pursuing his Master of Management with a focus on economic policy at the Wits School of Governance. Read more here.

2020 committee attendance as mp

100% attendance rate

Attended 8 meetings out of 8

2019 committee attendance as mp

81% attendance rate

Attended 22 meetings out of 27

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Recent meetings attended

Trade and Industry — Measures to ensure compliance with local content requirements & verification: DTI, NT & SABS briefings; ITAC 2019/20 Quarter 3 Performance — 11 Mar 2020
Trade and Industry — Distribution of funds & 2019/20 Quarter 3 performance: National Lotteries Commission briefing — 10 Mar 2020
Trade and Industry — Intellectual Property Laws Amendment Act & Indigenous Knowledge Act implementation — 4 Mar 2020
Trade and Industry — SONA & Budget as it relates to Department: Minister briefing; DTI & EDD 2019/20 Quarter 3 performance — 3 Mar 2020
Trade and Industry — NMISA & SANAS 2019/20 Quarter 3 performance — 26 Feb 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 Portfolio Committee On Trade and Industry (National Assembly Committees) since 27th June 2019
Member at National Assembly (Parliament) since 22nd May 2019
Member at Democratic Alliance (DA) (Party)

Formerly

15th Candidate at Democratic Alliance Regional Gauteng Election List 2019 (Election List) from 23rd April 2019 until 8th May 2019
60th Candidate at Democratic Alliance National Election List 2019 (Election List) from 23rd April 2019 until 8th May 2019

Committee appearances

NMISA & SANAS 2019/20 Quarter 3 performance 26 Feb 2020

Mr M Cuthbert (DA) expressed similar concerns to those of Mr Mbunye with regard to recapitalisation and aged infrastructure. He said NMISA should look at ways to promote revenue regeneration, and expressed his appreciation for the fact that the chief executive officer (CEO) and the delegation knew exactly what was ...
DTI 2018/19 Annual Incentive Report & 2019/20 Quarter 2 performance 25 Feb 2020

Mr M Cuthbert (DA) stated that IFD is generally one of the better-performing divisions within DTI, and that the Committee values IFD’s good work. He thought that the project on Global Business Services (where South Africa had long ago lost its competitive edge to countries such as India and ...
Impact of Protection, Promotion, Development and Management of the Indigenous Knowledge Act on Intellectual Property Laws Amendment Act 19 Feb 2020

Mr M Cuthbert (DA) supported Ms Hermans’ point that the two matters under discussion did not speak to one another, and also that it did not help that one would be unable to ask questions if the Department was not present. It would then become a “futile exercise”, because the ...
Outcomes of technical working groups to improve ease of doing business: DTI briefing 18 Feb 2020

Mr M Cuthbert (DA) asked how many reforms had been initiated since the Working Groups were established. One thing had been omitted from the presentation – South Africa had stayed in the same spot since 2019. It was telling that there hadn’t been movement since then. Surely there should have ...
2nd quarter report, oversight programme for 2020 & First Quarter Programme for 2020 3 Dec 2019

Mr M Cuthbert (DA), said that when the Companies and Intellectual Property Commission (CIPC) came to brief the committee, it had report it had sent a team of developers to the Department of Employment and Labour to get the Unemployment Insurance Fund (UIF) and Compensation Fund (CF) registrations down to ...

All Committee Appearances

Questions

Questions asked to the Minister of Trade and Industry 7 Jan 2020

(1)Whether, with reference to his reply to question 567 on 16 September 2019, the Chief Director who had been suspended for 729 days was placed on suspension for dealings in information technology (IT) procurement with a certain company (name furnished); (2) what are the relevant details of the IT ...
Questions asked to the Minister of Trade and Industry 2 Dec 2019

(a) What number of Qualifying Small Enterprises (QSEs) passed broad-based black economic empowerment verification over the past year, (b) how does this compare to the number of companies in the past 10 financial years and (c) what number of QSEs from Level 1 to 8 (i) complied and (ii) did ...
Questions asked to the Minister of International Relations and Cooperation 19 Nov 2019

1) What is the Government ‘s position on the economic sanctions placed on Zimbabwe by the United States of America and the Europian Union; (2) Whether the Government supporst a human rights – based foreign policy; if not, why not; if so, (3) Whether the government stands in solidarity with Government ...

All Questions and Answers

Plenary appearances

WEDNESDAY, 3 DECEMBER 2019 3 Dec 2019

House Chairperson, Minister you have just spoken about the steps being taken to broaden black-owned businesses in the panel beating business, but can you tell us what you have done with respect to the neo monopoly of Nzabanzaba Attorneys which continues to receive 70% of the Competition Commissions legal work ...
ADVANCING THE AFRICAN UNION AGENDA 2063 WITHIN THE CONTEXT OF THE TWIN PILLARS OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND SECURITY (Subject for Discussion) 7 Nov 2019

Hon Speaker, never did I think I will see the nationalist socialist party of Wakanda over there arguing in favour of free markets, but it seems that things happen everyday. The ratification of the African Continental Free Trade Area agreement, AfCFTA agreement, by 27 member states is a victory for ...

All Plenary Appearances

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