Ms Siviwe Gwarube

National Assembly

@Siviwe_G

About Siviwe Gwarube

Siviwe began her career in politics as a professional staff member working in communications back in 2012. She then moved on to work for the Western Cape government as a spokesperson and the Head of Ministry for the Department of Health in the province. In the lead up to and during the 2019 elections, She was the Executive Director of Communications for the DA before seeking public office and being elected. Read more here.

2021 committee attendance as mp

77% attendance rate

Attended 40 meetings out of 52

2020 committee attendance as mp

91% attendance rate

Attended 21 meetings out of 23

2019 committee attendance as mp

92% attendance rate

Attended 12 meetings out of 13

Attendance Methodology

Recent meetings attended

Health — National Health Insurance (NHI) Bill: public hearings day 19, with Deputy Minister — 10 Sep 2021
Health — Vaccine roll-out programme & acquisition, with Deputy Minister — 9 Sep 2021
Health — Vaccine roll-out programme & acquisition, with Minister & Deputy — 24 Aug 2021
Health — Election of Acting Chairperson; Committee Minutes — 18 Aug 2021
Health — National Health Insurance (NHI) Bill: public hearings day 17 — 28 Jul 2021

All meetings attended

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Currently

Member at Portfolio Committee on Health (National Assembly Committees) since 27th June 2019
Member at National Assembly (Parliament) since 22nd May 2019
Member at Democratic Alliance (DA) (Party)

Formerly

32nd Candidate at Democratic Alliance National Election List 2019 (Election List) from 23rd April 2019 until 8th May 2019

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Committee appearances

Vaccine roll-out programme & acquisition, with Minister & Deputy 24 Aug 2021

Ms S Gwarube (DA) asked that the Minister and his Team admit that communication, particularly community out-reach, at this stage of the vaccine roll-out had been less than ideal. When she had read the presentation given by Dr Crisp, while there were some commendable campaigns that would be rolled out ...
National Health Insurance (NHI) Bill: public hearings day 17 28 Jul 2021

Ms S Gwarube (DA) said there were urgent matters the Committee needed to attend to. One of these was the Special Investigating Unit (SIU) engagement it had wanted to have on the Digital Vibes report. She proposed that this needed to be scheduled quite quickly.
Update by Acting Minister on vaccine roll-out programme & variants; SAHPRA on Covid-19 vaccines pipeline, use of Ivermectin & application process for vaccine manufacturers 21 Jul 2021

The Committee secretary replied that Ms S Gwarube (DA) and Ms N Chirwa (EFF) had not been present in the morning session but were present now.
Vaccine acquisition, roll-out & new Delta variant; with Acting Minister 30 Jun 2021

Ms S Gwarube (DA) said that the Committee can understand the issue of AstraZeneca, and how that vaccine was not effective against the variant South Africa had at the time. What is the process to source the supply of AstraZeneca again? Will SAPHRA look at the scientific evidence it had ...
National Health Insurance (NHI) Bill: public hearings day 10 29 Jun 2021

Ms S Gwarube (DA) stated that the big predicament in South Africa was the deep inequality that existed around access, specifically access to quality care. As highlighted by FMF, there were a number of reasons why this was the case. How would FMF advise law makers to design legislation that ...

All Committee Appearances

Questions

Questions asked to the Minister of Health 2 Sep 2021

(1)What are the reasons that two certain health professionals (names furnished) are not yet disciplined by the SA Nursing Council and the Health Professionals Council of South Africa for the Life Esidimeni deaths; (2) whether investigations regarding the disciplinary cases of the two health officials are still ongoing; if not, ...
Questions asked to the Minister of Health 2 Sep 2021

What are the national minimum standards for (a) air ambulances, (b) helicopters and (c) fixed-wing aircraft?
Questions asked to the Minister of Health 4 Jun 2021

What (a) has been the breakdown of the costs of corruption within his department in the past five financial years, (b) number of tenders have been cancelled as a result of irregularities and/or corruption in each province in the past five years, (c) is the total amount of irregular expenditure ...

All Questions and Answers

Plenary appearances

GOVERNANCE - CLUSTER 3 27 May 2020

Madam Speaker, I am glad Minister that we are exploring alternative means to be able to ramp up our tests over and above what we have targeted. And I agree with you that we have seen a steady increase but experts in the field, Minister, including the World Health Organization, ...
GOVERNANCE - CLUSTER 3 27 May 2020

On what basis have we made the decision to resume with religious gatherings, considering what we know about cluster outbreaks in provinces when it comes to Covid- 19?

All Plenary Appearances

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