Adrian Christopher Roos

National Assembly

aroos@parliament.gov.za

About Adrian Christopher Roos

Adrian Roos holds LLB and BSc degrees and has applied location intelligence to drive growth and innovation in the government, transport, retail, monitoring & evaluation spheres for over 20 years. As a former National Chairperson of the Geoinformatics Society of South Africa he was instrumental in driving the professionalisation, establishment of regions and education programmes in the geoinformatics industry. As a passionate community activist during this time, Roos focussed on youth and disability projects establishing funding and support networks. The drive to tackle the broad scale injustices encountered lead to politics. Roos served on the Public Accounts, Finance, Economic Development, Transport and Environment Committees as a PR Councillor in the City of Tshwane before being elected to Parliament on the Home Affairs Portfolio. During this time he was elected to the DA Gauteng North Regional Executive and admitted as an Advocate of the North Gauteng High Court.

2019 committee attendance as mp

93% attendance rate

Attended 14 meetings out of 15

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Recent meetings attended

Home Affairs — DHA on strategies to resolve long queues at Home Affairs offices; with Deputy Minister — 26 Nov 2019
Home Affairs — 2018 High-Level Panel Recommendations: DHA and IEC briefing; Fireblade Aviation facility and EOH Mthombo contracts: DHA updates, with the Deputy Minister — 19 Nov 2019
Home Affairs — Resolving DHA offices’ network downtime & ABIS Procurement process: DHA & SITA briefing; DHA on litigation case management system and categorizing of the cases; with Minister and Deputy Minister — 5 Nov 2019
Home Affairs — Issues that affect migrants and citizens: engagement with NGOs & stakeholders — 29 Oct 2019
Home Affairs — Impact of illegal migration on cities: input from Joburg & Ekurhuleni Mayors, SALGA & Minister — 22 Oct 2019

All meetings attended

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Currently

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

Formerly

25th Candidate at Democratic Alliance Regional Gauteng Election List 2019 (Election List) from 23rd April 2019 until 8th May 2019
83rd Candidate at Democratic Alliance National Election List 2019 (Election List) from 23rd April 2019 until 8th May 2019

Committee appearances

DHA on strategies to resolve long queues at Home Affairs offices 26 Nov 2019

Mr A Roos (DA) said that the DHA needed enough resources to resolve these problems. He welcomed the monitoring tools at Home Affairs offices. On inadequate resources, he referred to the Centurion Office. He said that he had gone there and found that there were seven staff members serving the ...
2018 High-Level Panel Recommendations: DHA and IEC briefing; Fireblade Aviation agreement and EOH contract: DHA update 19 Nov 2019

Mr A Roos (DA) welcomed the presentation. He sought clarity on financial cost in the implementation of the system, on whether there could be elections in all three spheres of government, and on the potential of combined local and national elections and what would be the savings if elections were ...
Resolving DHA offices’ network downtime & ABIS Procurement process: DHA & SITA briefing; DHA on litigation case management system and categorizing of the cases; with Minister and Deputy Minister 5 Nov 2019

Mr A Roos (DA) said that presentations should speak to solutions. He asked why other departments did not have problems with network connectivity, but the DHA did. In the next three years, the DHA would go down. He sought clarity whether Telkom was involved in the power failures. When services ...
Issues that affect migrants and citizens: engagement with NGOs & stakeholders 29 Oct 2019

Mr A Roos (DA) referred to the African Continental Free Trade Agreement and the Southern African Development Community (SADC) free movement protocols, which should be implemented on the basis of trust. He stressed the rule of law in the promotion of cross-border movements. He asked CoRMSA to elaborate on what ...
Impact of illegal migration on cities: input from Mayors of Johannesburg & Ekurhuleni, SALGA & DHA; with Minister 22 Oct 2019

Mr A Roos (DA) asked how social cohesion would be promoted and how xenophobic violence could be prevented? What strategies were in place to ensure these objectives were achieved? Presenters were in agreement that undocumented migrants had approached the DHA offices and instead of helping them, they had been turned ...

All Committee Appearances

Questions

Questions asked to the Minister of Trade and Industry 7 Jan 2020

With reference to his reply to question 1293 on 18 November 2019, wherein he indicated that the second phase of the Ekandustria Revitalisation Programme has not been initiated yet, pending funding approval, (a) why was budget for the Ekandustria Revitalisation Programme not set aside for the 2019-20 financial year, (b ...
Questions asked to the Minister of Home Affairs 2 Dec 2019

In light of the Foreign Mission Observation Report that was submitted by the Auditor-General to his Department in March 2018, highlighting risks that were identified, what are the details of the interventions that have been undertaken by his department on the (a) applications for passports and identify documents that have ...
Questions asked to the Minister of Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development 27 Nov 2019

(a) What is the status of implementation of the Spatial Data Infrastructure Act, Act 54 of 2003, (b) what budget has been allocated for the implementation of the specified Act in the 2019-20 financial year and (c) what amount in savings has been realised by monitoring spatial data contracts across ...

All Questions and Answers

Plenary appearances

ROWING SA TO HOST 2023 WORLD ROWING MASTERS REGATTA AT ROODEPLAAT DAM (Draft Resolution) 26 Nov 2019

Chair, I move without notice on behalf of the DA:
That the House-
1) congratulates Rowing SA on securing the rights to host the 2023 World Rowing Masters Regatta at the Roodeplaat Dam;
2) recognises that this is the first world rowing event ever to be held in Africa;
3 ...
STATE OF MUNICIPALITIES UNDER SECTION 139(B) (Member's Statement) 26 Nov 2019

Chairperson, more than a year ago the United Nations Committee on Economic Social and Cultural Rights pull down South Africa to ensure that all children have access to education, but because of failures at Home Affairs undocumented children are still refused entry to schools in our country. According to United ...

All Plenary Appearances

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