Mxolisa Simon Sokatsha

National Assembly

Formerly: Northern Cape Provincial Legislature

msokatsha@parliament.gov.za

About Mxolisa Simon Sokatsha

2020 committee attendance as mp

100% attendance rate

Attended 2 meetings out of 2

2019 committee attendance as mp

92% attendance rate

Attended 12 meetings out of 13

Attendance records reflect Committee not Plenary Attendance
Minister/Deputy Minister attendance is not compulsory.
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.
Plenary Attendance is not made public by Parliament although it has been requested.

Recent meetings attended

Health — Healthcare Market Inquiry Report: briefing by Competition Commissioner — 11 Mar 2020
Health — National Health Insurance (NHI) Pilot Evaluation; Coronavirus response; with Minister — 4 Mar 2020
Health — Health Budgetary Review and Recommendations Report — 22 Oct 2019
Health — Compensation Commissioner for Occupational Diseases 2019/20 Annual Performance Plan — 16 Oct 2019
Health — DoH, NHLS & SAHPRA 2018/19 Annual Reports; with Minister & Deputy Minister — 15 Oct 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 Joint Committee on South African chapter of Global TC Caucus (Joint Committees) since 17th March 2020
Member at Portfolio Committee on Health (National Assembly Committees) since 27th June 2019
Member at National Assembly (Parliament) since 22nd May 2019
Member at African National Congress (ANC) (Party)

Formerly

106th Candidate at African National Congress National Election List 2019 (Election List) from 23rd April 2019 until 8th May 2019
Member at Northern Cape Provincial Legislature (Provincial-Legislature) from 21st May 2014 until 7th May 2019
Member-elect at Northern Cape Provincial Legislature (Provincial-Legislature) from 16th May 2014 until 21st May 2014
9th Candidate at African National Congress Provincial Northern Cape Election List 2014 (Election List) from 22nd April 2014 until 7th May 2014

Committee appearances

DoH, NHLS & SAHPRA 2018/19 Annual Reports; with Minister & Deputy Minister 15 Oct 2019

Mr M Sokatsha (ANC) expressed his grave concern on SAHPRA’s poor performance in achieving its targets across all programmes. He questioned the R30 million saving on employees. The funds clearly should have been used in capacitating units in the entity. He criticised SAHPRA for asking for additional funds from ...
Health Sector 2018/19 Annual Reports, with AGSA, SAMRC, and FFC input 10 Oct 2019

Mr M Sokatsha (ANC) asked where the OHO get involved in instances of mistreatment of patients -- for example, when mental health patients were kept in jail. Should the OHO be called in to come and investigate, or not?
Department of Health audit outcomes: AGSA, DPME & FCC input 9 Oct 2019

Mr M Sokatsha (ANC) remarked that decentralisation of funding to hospitals was a long outstanding issue. He felt that there was ambiguity on the role played by provincial and local departments in implementation of the NHI. However, the Constitution could be relied on to solve this matter.
CCOD, OHSC & SAHPRA on their Mandates & Annual Performance Plans 2019/20 4 Sep 2019

Mr M Sokatsha (ANC) commented that Dr Kistnasamy had said the claimant process was too long. He fully agreed that it was very long, because some of the Members died in the process without having benefited, including their families. The Department had said they were trying to shorten the process ...
Engagement with the Elders on Universal Health Coverage 3 Sep 2019

Mr M Sokatsha (ANC) said he had listened to the situation and it was clear that SA needed to reform the health system as soon as possible and the answer was the National Health Insurance (NHI) scheme. He had heard the Elders say that SA needed to get its base ...

All Committee Appearances

Questions

No questions found

Plenary appearances

RED CROSS WAR MEMORIAL CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL SURGEONS START ON THE RECONSTRUCTIVE OPERATIONS EARMARKED TO BE PERFORMED ON TEN CHILDREN (Draft Resolution) 5 Nov 2019

House Chair, I move without notice:
That the House -
1) welcomes the work of surgeons who have started on the reconstructive operations that have been earmarked to be performed on ten children at the Red Cross War Memorial Children's Hospital in Cape Town, as part of Red Cross War ...
QUESTIONS FOR ORAL REPLY SOCIAL SERVICES 11 Sep 2019

Hon Deputy Speaker, hon Minister, thank you very much for the response. Hon Minister, in September 2018, President Cyril Ramaphosa announced government's economic stimulus and recovery plan. The plan speaks to among other things addressing the urgent and pressing matters in health by announcing that the Minister of Health ...

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