Michéle Clarke

National Assembly

Formerly: Gauteng Provincial Legislature

michelec@da.org.za

About Michéle Clarke

Prior to 2000, she worked for Local Government for 15 years as an Official. She then got involved with the DA, and was the Chairperson for the Bedfordview Branch in Gauteng from 1997 until 2000. She was then elected as a Councillor for three terms to the Bedfordview Ward. During that period she served as a Whip, a Deputy Chief Whip, and she was also the spokesperson of the Shadow Member of the Mayoral Committee for Community Safety at the time. Read more

2020 committee attendance as mp

80% attendance rate

Attended 4 meetings out of 5

2019 committee attendance as mp

70% attendance rate

Attended 16 meetings out of 23

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MP attendance is compulsory unless an apology is given
MPs are recorded as absent whether they have, or have not submitted apologies.
This is not the official committee attendance record of Parliament.
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Recent meetings attended

Public Service and Administration, Performance Monitoring and Evaluation — Disciplinary cases in the public service; Stats SA on legislative reform; DPME, DPSA & Stats SA Term 2 & 3 performance; with Deputy Minister — 11 Mar 2020
Public Service and Administration, Performance Monitoring and Evaluation — Director-General Turnover; Integrated Planning Framework Bill; Guide on Governance Practice for Executive Authorities & HODs; with Minister Mthembu — 4 Mar 2020
Public Service and Administration, Performance Monitoring and Evaluation — DPSA, NSG & CPSI on Quarter 2 & 3 2019/20 performance — 26 Feb 2020
Public Service and Administration, Performance Monitoring and Evaluation — DPME, Brand SA & Stats SA 2019/20 Quarter 2 & 3 performance; with Deputy Minister — 19 Feb 2020
Public Service and Administration, Performance Monitoring and Evaluation — Office of Standards & Compliance; Public servants prohibited from doing business with state; Financial Disclosure Framework: progress reports; with Deputy Minister — 20 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 Public Service and Administration (National Assembly Committees) since 27th June 2019
Member at National Assembly (Parliament) since 22nd May 2019
Member at Democratic Alliance (DA) (Party)

Formerly

12nd Candidate at Democratic Alliance Regional Gauteng Election List 2019 (Election List) from 23rd April 2019 until 8th May 2019
65th Candidate at Democratic Alliance Provincial Gauteng Election List 2019 (Election List) from 23rd April 2019 until 8th May 2019
45th Candidate at Democratic Alliance National Election List 2019 (Election List) from 23rd April 2019 until 8th May 2019
Member at Gauteng Provincial Legislature (Provincial-Legislature) from 21st May 2014 until 7th May 2019
Member at Social Transformation Cluster Community Safety Portfolio Committee-gau (Gauteng Provincial Legislature Committee) until 7th May 2019
Alternate Member at Education Portfolio Committee-gau (Gauteng Provincial Legislature Committee) until 7th May 2019
Member-elect at Gauteng Provincial Legislature (Provincial-Legislature) from 16th May 2014 until 21st May 2014
21st Candidate at Democratic Alliance Provincial Gauteng Election List 2014 (Election List) from 22nd April 2014 until 7th May 2014

Committee appearances

DPSA, NSG & CPSI on Quarter 2 & 3 2019/20 performance 26 Feb 2020

Ms M Clarke (DA) echoed concern about overspending resulting from the compensation of capped leave days. Human Resources (HR) policies stipulate the number of days that must be taken in leave annually. She recognized that this is a difficult issue to contend with. However, in the current economic climate government ...
DPME, Brand SA & Stats SA 2019/20 Quarter 2 & 3 performance 19 Feb 2020

Ms M Clarke (DA) said that she was concerned about funding for Stats SA. She wanted to know if they would have the capacity to analyse the statistics once Census 2021 had been completed.
Progress on the establishment of the Office of Standards and Compliance & implementation of protocol to prohibit public servants from doing business with the state: Department briefing; Monitoring Financial Disclosure Framework in the public service: PSC briefing 20 Nov 2019

Ms M Clarke (DA) said she would be looking at both reports. Firstly, when looking at the PSC report and the budget and operational needs they were having to grapple with to do their jobs, it seemed that in every report that was presented to the Committee, these were the ...
Brand SA on Play Your Part programme; 30 days payment of valid invoices to service providers in public service: DPME briefing; Implementation & compliance with Performance Management Development System 13 Nov 2019

Ms M Clarke (DA) recommended that the biggest transgressors according to the report presented today be called to this Committee to account for why this was happening, and measures put in place to facilitate compliance. As someone who had served a long time as a Member of the Provincial Legislature ...
Contract appointments in government departments; Thusong Service Centres: DPSA, GCIS & COGTA input; Revised Ministerial Handbook, with Minister 6 Nov 2019

Ms M Clarke (DA) asked about departments that were being merged, and what was being done about staff that were not placed in the new structure. What were the staff doing in the interim, since they had not been placed in the structure? Audit reports on the departments to establish ...

All Committee Appearances

Questions

Questions asked to the Minister of Home Affairs 24 Dec 2019

Whether his department and metropolitan municipalities have a memorandum of understanding in place to assist with the loss of documentation in an event of shack fires; if so, what are the details of the processes including turnaround times within the metropolitan municipalities;
Questions asked to the Minister of Police 17 Dec 2019

Whether any safety inspections were conducted in SA Police Service stations across Gauteng (a) in the past three financial years and (b) since 1 April 2019; if not why not; if so, on what date was each inspection conducted?
Questions asked to the Minister of Home Affairs 2 Dec 2019

What (a) are the reasons that no mobile units are currently in operational status within Gauteng and (b)(i) total number of mobile units are parked at the Germiston and Braamfontein regional offices and not being used and (ii) are the reasons that the mobile units are parked and not ...

All Questions and Answers

Plenary appearances

SHACK FIRES AN INCREASINGLY COMMON OCCURRENCE IN THE INFORMAL SETTLEMENTS OF THE CITY OF EKURHULENI (Draft Resolution) 26 Nov 2019

House Chairperson, I move without notice:
That the House-
1) notes that shack fires are an increasingly common occurrence in the informal settlements of the City of Ekurhuleni;
2) acknowledges that the vulnerable community members residing in these informal settlements suffer huge trauma every time these fires occur, leaving them ...

All Plenary Appearances

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