Vusumuzi Cyril Xaba

National Assembly

Formerly: KwaZulu-Natal Provincial Legislature

rmichaels@parliament.gov.za vcxaba@parliament.gov.za

About Vusumuzi Cyril Xaba

Mr Xaba was born in Pinetown, KwaZulu-Natal in 1967. He previously served in the KwaZulu-Natal Legislature as a member of the Executive Council (1994-2009). He also served as a Special Advisor to the Premier of KwaZulu-Natal from 2009 to 2014). Mr Xaba studied BProc at the University of Natal in Durban and holds a Master of Laws (LLM) from the University of KwaZulu-Natal.

2019 committee attendance as mp

96% attendance rate

Attended 22 meetings out of 23

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

Defence — Mandate, challenges and achievements, as well as the outcome of the Reserve Force Indaba: briefing by Defence Reserves & Reserve Force Council — 28 Nov 2019
Defence and Military Veterans — Denel, NDIC and DCAC on state of the Defence Industry as well as update on DOD projects; with Minister — 27 Nov 2019
Defence and Military Veterans — Defence Amendment Bill & Military Discipline Bill: briefings — 20 Nov 2019
Defence and Military Veterans — Independence of Office of the Military Ombud: input from Parliamentary Legal Adviser & Office of the Military Ombud — 13 Nov 2019
Defence and Military Veterans — Defence Industry in South Africa status and challenges: DOD, Armscor & South African Defence Industry briefing — 6 Nov 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

Chairperson at Portfolio Committee on Defence and Military Veterans (National Assembly Committees) since 2nd July 2019
Member at Portfolio Committee on Defence and Military Veterans (National Assembly Committees) since 27th June 2019
Member at Constitutional Review Committee (National Assembly Committees) since 27th June 2019
Member at Joint Standing Committee on Defence (Joint Committees) since 27th June 2019
Member at National Assembly (Parliament) since 22nd May 2019
Member at African National Congress (ANC) (Party)

Formerly

1st Candidate at African National Congress Regional KwaZulu-Natal Election List 2019 (Election List) from 23rd April 2019 until 8th May 2019
Member at KwaZulu-Natal Provincial Legislature (Provincial-Legislature) from 21st May 2014 until 7th May 2019
Member-elect at KwaZulu-Natal Provincial Legislature (Provincial-Legislature) from 16th May 2014 until 21st May 2014
17th Candidate at African National Congress Provincial KwaZulu-Natal Election List 2014 (Election List) from 22nd April 2014 until 7th May 2014

Committee appearances

SA Navy on its sea hours and capacity; SA Air Force on its flying-hours and capacity constraints 12 Sep 2019

Mr V Xaba (ANC), NA Co-Chairperson, and the SA Air Force representatives voiced serious concerns about the presence of the media during the meeting as the information discussed was classified confidential. They made it clear that it was inappropriate for the public to have access to confidential information until it ...
SA Navy on its sea hours and capacity; SA Air Force on its flying-hours and capacity constraints 12 Sep 2019

Mr V Xaba (ANC), NA Co-Chairperson, and the SA Air Force representatives voiced serious concerns about the presence of the media during the meeting as the information discussed was classified confidential. They made it clear that it was inappropriate for the public to have access to confidential information until it ...
Election of Co-Chairperson; Employment of members of SANDF in service in co-operation with SAPS 25 Jul 2019

Members elected Mr C Xaba (ANC) and Mr N Nchabeleng (ANC; Limpopo) as the Co-Chairpersons of the Joint Committee from the National Assembly and NCOP components respectively
Public Works Department Budget & Programmes 2001/2 13 Jun 2001

Mr Cyril Xaba (ANC) asked how many Client Departments had come forward and signed the service level agreement with the Department of Public Works. He also asked if there were any redundant staff in the Department and what would be done about these staff. Finally Mr Xaba asked who is ...

All Committee Appearances

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Plenary appearances

THE RECENT INCIDENTS OF VIOLENCE AND CRIMINALITY IN THE COUNTRY, INCLUDING THOSE AFFECTING FOREIGN NATIONALS 10 Sep 2019

Hon Deputy Speaker, hon Deputy President, hon Deputy Ministers, hon Ministers and hon members, let me thank the IFP for this debate. Let us take our memory back to our history as a nation, to remind ourselves of the context for crime and violence in South Africa, in order to ...
APPROPRIATION BILL 17 Jul 2019

Hon Chairperson, hon Minister, hon Deputy Minister, hon Members of Parliament, my predecessor, Mr Motimela, Chief of the Defence Force, the Secretary of the Defence Force, guests in the gallery, the mission of the Department of Defence is to provide, manage, prepare and deploy defence capabilities commensurate with the needs ...

All Plenary Appearances

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