Thamsanqa Bhekokwakhe Mabhena

National Assembly

@SoMathamsanqa

About Thamsanqa Bhekokwakhe Mabhena

Mr Mabhena is a member of the Democratoc Alliance. He is a member of the National Assembly and serves in the Portfolio Committee of Transport.

He served in the DA in two provinces (Mpumalanga and Gauteng) occupying various roles in the DA in the two provinces as follows:

Mpumalanga: - Transport coordinator: Dr JS Moroka Constituency 2009 General Elections - Constituency Secretary: DJ Moroka Constituency - 2010
- Deputy Constituency Chairperson DA Youth: Dr JS Moroka Constituency – 2012 - Member of the DA Youth Provincial Council: 2009 – 2013

Gauteng: - DA Youth Constituency Youth Rep: Hlanganani Constituency – 2014
- Constituency Officer: JHB Central Constituency – 2015 (Professional staffer)
- Johannesburg Regional Coordinator: Telecanvassing – 2015 (Professional Staffer) • Events coordinator: Logistics Mashaba Mayoral campaign – 2015 & 2016 (Professional staffer). - PR Councillor City Of Johannesburg Metro municipality – 2016 - Constituency Chairperson: Hlanganani constituency – 2017 - Member of Parliament – 2019

Read more about Mr Mabhena in our blog feature here:

2020 committee attendance as mp

93% attendance rate

Attended 25 meetings out of 27

2019 committee attendance as mp

95% attendance rate

Attended 19 meetings out of 20

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

Transport — Public Protector remedial action relating to illegal conversion of Toyota Quantum Panel Vans into Minibus Taxis: DoT briefing; with Minister — 4 Sep 2020
Transport — Department of Transport 2020/21 Quarter 1 performance; Civil Aviation A/B: Committee Report; with Deputy Minister — 1 Sep 2020
Transport — Civil Aviation A/B [B44-2018]: deliberations — 28 Aug 2020
Transport — Civil Aviation Amendment Bill [B 44-2018]; Oversight Visit Report — 25 Aug 2020
Transport — DOT Revised Annual Performance Plan; RABS Bill: Committee Report; with Deputy Minister — 21 Aug 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 Transport (National Assembly Committees) since 27th June 2019
Member at National Assembly (Parliament) since 22nd May 2019
Member at Democratic Alliance (DA) (Party)

Formerly

36th Candidate at Democratic Alliance National Election List 2019 (Election List) from 23rd April 2019 until 8th May 2019
11th Candidate at Democratic Alliance Regional Gauteng Election List 2019 (Election List) from 23rd April 2019 until 8th May 2019

Fetching the latest messages to Thamsanqa Bhekokwakhe Mabhena…

Committee appearances

Implementation of Public Protector remedial action relating to illegal conversion of Toyota Quantum Panel Vans into MiniBus Taxis: DoT briefing 4 Sep 2020

Mr T Mabhena (DA) said that the matters brought up by Mr Hunsinger reflected the concerns of the DA. The converted panel vans had cost money, and had cost much more than R129 000. Operators had had to pay extra money for the conversion of the panel vans. Talking about ...
Department of Transport 2020/21 Quarter 1 performance; Civil Aviation A/B: Committee Report 1 Sep 2020

Mr T Mabhena (DA) observed that the low uptake of the scrapping of taxis did not lie with the taxi owners, but that the bottleneck was rather with the DoT. He said that many widows had their deceased husbands’ taxis, which could be scrapped, as the process was long and ...
Civil Aviation A/B [B44-2018]: deliberations 28 Aug 2020

Mr T Mabhena (DA) asked if the appointment of staff is done by the Director-General of the Department of Transport or the Director of Civil Aviation.
Department of Transport Revised Annual Performance Plans; RABS Bill: Committee Report 21 Aug 2020

Mr T Mabhena (DA) asked about the vacancies that would not be filled in 2020/21 – would they be selected in terms of priority? Would training cuts apply only to the Administration programme or to the entire department? What is the current uptake of the TRP on a monthly basis ...
Civil Aviation A/B: deliberations; Committee Report on DoT 2019/20 Quarter 4 performance; Committee Strategic Plan 18 Aug 2020

Mr T Mabhena (DA) asked if the sole reason for not making ASIP a completely independent organisation outside of SACAA was due to the cost implications. The independence of ASIP would ensure that any investigations conducted by the unit would be done without fear or fair, and thus exist beyond ...

All Committee Appearances

Questions

Questions asked to the Minister of Transport 18 Sep 2020

Whether the Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa is currently engaged in any process of insourcing security personnel; if so, what is the total number of (a) security personnel to be insourced and (b) the existing security personnel that will be insourced?
Questions asked to the Minister of Transport 4 Sep 2020

(1)Whether his department has distributed any face masks in the past two months; if so, (a) what number of face masks have been issued and distributed to (i) taxi ranks and/or (ii) taxi associations throughout the Republic and (b) on what dates were the specified face masks delivered ...
Questions asked to the Minister of Transport 4 Sep 2020

Whether his department has distributed any sanitisers to (a) taxi associations and/or (b) taxi ranks throughout the Republic; if so, (i) what total number of sanitisers, (ii) at what total cost to his department and (iii) how long does he envisage the specified programme will last?

All Questions and Answers

Plenary appearances

NDEBELE STUDENTS ASSOCIATION HOSTED ITS FIRST EVER NDEBELE SPELLING BEE (Draft Resolution) 12 Nov 2019

House Chair, I move without notice:
That the House-
1) notes that the Ndebele Students Association, NSA, hosted its first ever Ndebele Spelling Bee and debate competition at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg a few weeks ago;
2) further notes that both events saw over 12 severely under- ...
APPROPRIATION BILL 9 Jul 2019

No, I will not take the question.

All Plenary Appearances

Correct this page