Nazley Khan Sharif

National Assembly

nazleykhan@gmail.com

@NazleySharif

About Nazley Khan Sharif

Ms Sharif joined the Democratic Alliance Student Organisation (DASO) in her first year at Wits University and has been involved in politics ever since. She was elected as a PR Councillor in the city of Johanessburg in 2014 and was re-elected in 2016. She was elected as the Section 79 Committee Chairperson in the Gender, Youth and People with Disabilities in 2016 up until her election as an Member of Parliament (MP) in 2019. Read more about Ms Sharif here.

2020 committee attendance as mp

80% attendance rate

Attended 12 meetings out of 15

2019 committee attendance as mp

76% attendance rate

Attended 19 meetings out of 25

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

Multi-Party Women’s Caucus — Minister on National Strategic Plan on Gender-based Violence and Femicide — 26 Jun 2020
Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities — Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities Budget: Committee Report — 2 Jun 2020
Multi-Party Women’s Caucus — Framework for gender responsive planning, budgeting, evaluation and auditing: Department briefing- with Minister and Deputy Minister — 28 May 2020
Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities — Commission for Gender Equality 2020/21 Annual Performance Plan — 26 May 2020
Multi-Party Women’s Caucus — Progress report on matters arising from previous committee meetings — 22 May 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 Women, Youth, Children and People with Disability (National Assembly Committees) since 27th June 2019
Member at National Assembly (Parliament) since 22nd May 2019
Member at Democratic Alliance (DA) (Party)

Formerly

62nd Candidate at Democratic Alliance National Election List 2019 (Election List) from 23rd April 2019 until 8th May 2019
16th Candidate at Democratic Alliance Regional Gauteng Election List 2019 (Election List) from 23rd April 2019 until 8th May 2019

Committee appearances

Minister on National Strategic Plan on Gender-based Violence and Femicide 26 Jun 2020

Ms N Sharif (DA) said Members were looking forward to having the briefing on the NSP. She asked how the seven representatives from civil society were going to be appointed. She believed that the process would require that posts were put out to the public, and wanted to know how ...
Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities Budget: Committee Report 2 Jun 2020

Ms N Sharif (DA) said there is a worry that the CGE is underfunded, given the amount of work they need to do. It needs to be noted in the Recommendations that more funding is given so that CGE can do more. They demand so much from CGE but they ...
Framework for gender responsive planning, budgeting, evaluation and auditing: Department briefing 28 May 2020

Ms N Sharif (DA) commented that it is very important that the Department is self-reflective and self-critical of the work that is done between departments and within Parliament . She wanted to commend the DG for adding this in her presentation by listing the limitations and problems that have been faced ...
Framework for gender responsive planning, budgeting, evaluation and auditing: Department briefing 28 May 2020

Ms Nkomo stated that the Caucus Chairperson is back and that the next speaker is Ms W Newhoudt-Druchen (ANC), followed by Ms N Sharif (DA), Ms Maluleke and Ms Tshabalala again.
Commission for Gender Equality 2020/21 Annual Performance Plan 26 May 2020

Ms N Sharif (DA) raised a concern on shelters and substance abuse. While working on a case last week, she had found that no shelters wanted to take a 21 year-old girl in because she had a crystal meth addiction. The young girl needed to be placed outside of the ...

All Committee Appearances

Questions

Questions asked to the Minister of Health 18 Dec 2019

(1)With reference to access to health care by the transgender community, what is the (a) current process for and (b) budget allocated to hormone replacement and gender re-assignment surgery in Government hospitals; (2) whether there is a backlog in respect of hormone replacement and gender re-assignment surgery in Government ...
Questions asked to the Minister of Home Affairs 13 Dec 2019

What measures is his department taking to assist the transgender community by speeding up the process of changing their sex designation legally?
Questions asked to the Minister in The Presidency for Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities 6 Dec 2019

With reference to her department’s mandate to champion the advancement of women’s socio-economic empowerment and the promotion of gender equality, what steps and/or programmes has her department undertaken in collaboration with other government departments, such as the Departments of Justice and Health the SA Police Service, to ...

All Questions and Answers

Plenary appearances

WEDNESDAY, 3 DECEMBER 2019 3 Dec 2019

Government's role is to come here and tell us what the implementation plan is. Where is the money coming from and what are the timelines? Nothing else! We are tired of hearing rhetoric and words that mean nothing. The President said ... [Interjections.]
THE DEPUTY SPEAKER: Hon members, hon members ...
WEDNESDAY, 3 DECEMBER 2019 3 Dec 2019

The President said R1,6 billion will be allocated to the emergency response action plan but what he didn't tell us is that this is not new money. This is money that need to come from good graces of departmental heads and is not deliberately rig fenced for gender-based ...

All Plenary Appearances

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