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

92% attendance rate

Attended 11 meetings out of 12

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Recent meetings attended

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 Mayors of Johannesburg & Ekurhuleni, SALGA & DHA; with Minister — 22 Oct 2019
Home Affairs — Home Affairs Budgetary Review and Recommendations Report; Committee Report on Gauteng Oversight visit; 2019/20 Quarterl 1 performance — 15 Oct 2019
Home Affairs — Audit outcomes of Department and entities: AGSA briefing; DHA & IEC 2018/19 Annual Reports; with Minister — 8 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

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 ...
Home Affairs Budgetary Review and Recommendations Report; Committee Report on Gauteng Oversight visit; 2019/20 Quarterl 1 performance 15 Oct 2019

Mr A Roos (DA) agreed and asked the why the Minister of Communication is involved. What role would the Ministry play when SITA was going to make a presentation to the Committee? The Committee was meeting with SITA to address what the Department is not doing and what SITA is ...
Audit outcomes of Department and entities: AGSA briefing; DHA & IEC 2018/19 Annual Reports; with Minister 8 Oct 2019

Mr A Roos (DA) referred to the audit outcomes over five years, and sought clarity as to why the DHA and its entities had been committing the same errors for the last five years. What were the reasons for the poor audit outcomes? Was it due to the lack of ...

All Committee Appearances

Questions

Questions asked to the Minister of Home Affairs 30 Oct 2019

With regard to case number 77944/2016 in the matter between Y V Chisuse and four others and the Director-General of the Department of Home Affairs in the Gauteng Division of the High Court, (a) why did his department, more than two years after the court order to file answering ...
Questions asked to the Minister of Public Works and Infrastructure: 28 Oct 2019

With regard to each office leased by her department on behalf of the Department of Home Affairs, (a) what is the (i) street address or erf number or farm number, (ii) lease expiry date, (iii) size of the space rented in square metres and (iv) monthly rental and (b) on ...
Questions asked to the Minister of Home Affairs 23 Oct 2019

What are the details of the (a) progress of the Public Private Partnership (PPP) process for the appointment of a new service provider for visa services and (b)(i) steps that must be followed and (ii) deadline of each step to ensure that the PPP process for the appointment of ...

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