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

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Recent meetings attended

Defence — Reserve Force mandate, challenges, achievements, outcome of Reserve Force Indaba — 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

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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

Mandate, challenges and achievements, as well as the outcome of the Reserve Force Indaba: briefing by Defence Reserves & Reserve Force Council 28 Nov 2019

The Chairperson thanked Gen Anderson and his colleagues for the presentation and responses. The Committee will note the report from the Chief of the Defence Reserve. It has given them more understanding on what is going on with the reserves throughout the country. On the registration of military veterans, it ...
Mandate, challenges and achievements, as well as the outcome of the Reserve Force Indaba: briefing by Defence Reserves & Reserve Force Council 28 Nov 2019

Mr V Xaba (ANC), Co-Chairperson, asked why the registration of military veterans is not automatic because they are already retired soldiers who are now doing duties on a part-time basis. No mention has been made of the difficulty of members not requiring an ongoing stipend when not on call-up.
Skills Audit & Data Base challenges: Department briefing; Analysis of Military Veterans Act & Legal Opinion on Committee’s status: Parliamentary Legal Services briefing 31 Oct 2019

Mr V Xaba (ANC), Co-chairperson, thanked Adv Njikela for the briefing that touched on all the essential elements of his legal opinion. It is therefore clear what they should look at as a Committee
Skills Audit & Data Base challenges: Department briefing; Analysis of Military Veterans Act & Legal Opinion on Committee’s status: Parliamentary Legal Services briefing 31 Oct 2019

Mr V Xaba (ANC) chaired the meeting
2015 Defence Review: Department of Defence and Military Veterans briefing 17 Oct 2019

The Chairperson said the purpose of the meeting was to receive a review on the South African National Defence Force (SANDF). The original item on the agenda was the renewal of the SANDF’s organisational structure, which would still be touched on. The SANDF delegation at the meeting had played ...

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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