Oscar Masarona Mathafa

National Assembly

omathafa@parliament.gov.za

About Oscar Masarona Mathafa

2020 committee attendance as mp

73% attendance rate

Attended 8 meetings out of 11

2019 committee attendance as mp

88% attendance rate

Attended 38 meetings out of 43

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Recent meetings attended

Standing Committee on Appropriations — Committee Report on Division of Revenue Bill [B3-2020] — 17 Mar 2020
Standing Committee on Appropriations — Division of Revenue Bill: public hearings — 13 Mar 2020
Standing Committee on Appropriations — Division of Revenue Bill [B3-20]: briefing — 12 Mar 2020
Standing Committee on Appropriations — National Departments 2019/20 Quarter 3 Expenditure Performance: Committee Staff Analysis — 11 Mar 2020
Standing Committee on Appropriations — National Departments Quarter 3 performance: DPME briefing — 10 Mar 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 Standing Committee on Appropriations (Committee) since 27th June 2019
Member at Standing Committee on Auditor General (National Assembly Committees) since 27th June 2019
Member at National Assembly (Parliament) since 22nd May 2019
Member at African National Congress (ANC) (Party)

Formerly

11th Candidate at African National Congress Regional Gauteng Election List 2019 (Election List) from 23rd April 2019 until 8th May 2019

Committee appearances

Pre-2020 budget workshop with National Treasury on budget instruments to be tabled by Minister of Finance 25 Feb 2020

Mr O Mathafa (ANC) referred to Clauses 11-12, and linked to Clauses 18-20 of the Division of Revenue Bill (DORB), and asked what role the Department could play in capacity building in the area of the spending conditional grants. Clauses 18-20 provided penalties, but for him the issue was more ...
National Treasury 2019/20 Quarter 3 performance 18 Feb 2020

Mr O Mathafa (ANC) noted on slide 4 and 5 that there is a general underspending of grants, that is, the first part was unconditional, and the second part was conditional. He is worried by the approach of withholding the equitable share payment for the municipalities as this has a ...
Overview of Committee work undertaken during 2019 & Term 1 of 2020 programme 5 Dec 2019

Mr O Mathafa (ANC) sought clarity on the issue of resolutions, and whether they were being implemented. He wanted to know if, as committees, they had a resolution implementation mechanism. He suspected that there thousands of resolutions being made by committees that were not necessarily being implemented, so he would ...
2019 Adjustments Appropriation Bill & MTBPS: public hearings 29 Nov 2019

Mr O Mathafa (ANC) asked what constituency was represented by Green Fields for All. How much would a legal cannabis trade inject into the economy? He asked OUTA what Parliament could do more to ensure consequence management in financial administration. It had passed a law giving the Auditor General more ...
2019 Adjustments Appropriation Bill Departments of Water and Sanitation and Cooperative Governance briefing 27 Nov 2019

Mr O Mathafa (ANC) asked about consultation with the National Treasury (NT) and the South African Local Government Association (SALGA). Top slicing remained a constant challenge. Was it a precedent followed by other departments, and were alternatives considered?

All Committee Appearances

Questions

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Plenary appearances

NOTICES OF MOTION 12 Nov 2019

House Chairperson, I hereby give notice that on the next sitting day of the House I shall move on behalf of the ANC:
That the House-debates social cohesion and nation- building can be encouraged through the progressive realisation of socioeconomic rights for all, the elimination of all forms of discrimination ...
SPECIAL APPROPRIATION BILL (First Reading debate) 22 Oct 2019

Hon Deputy Speaker, hon Deputy President and hon members, hon Sarupen speaks of the DA's rejected inputs. Those inputs were rejected because the DA wanted to expropriate the committee's discussions without compensation, or at least, give credit to the committee!
[Laughter.] The DA summarised the committee's discussions ...

All Plenary Appearances

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