Member of the National Assembly
Formerly: Western Cape Provincial Legislature
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Brett Norton Herron is a lawyer by profession. He graduated with a B.A and postgraduate LL.B degree from the University of Natal (now University of KwaZulu-Natal) and was admitted as an attorney in 1994.
From 2018 to 2020 he attended the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), where he completed an MSc in Cities degree. He was awarded a Bloomberg Scholarship for Public Service.
He served in executive city office in Cape Town for almost a decade. In 2010 he was appointed as the Mayco Member for Community Services.
In 2011 he was re-elected to the Council and was appointed to the Mayoral Committee Member for Transport. Between 2011 and 2016 he led the implementation of the MyCiTi Bus.
Following the August 2016 local government elections he was re-elected to the Council and appointed as the Mayco Member responsible for Transport & Urban Development. In the reconfigured government he was responsible for Transport, Spatial Planning and Housing.
He resigned from the DA (Democratic Alliance), the Council and Mayco after the DA blocked several affordable housing projects he had initiated because the projects were on well-located public land.
In May 2019 he was elected a Member of Provincial Parliament in the Western Cape representing the fledgling GOOD party. He served as a member of the following standing committees: Human Settlements (Housing), Transport and Public Works, Environment and Development Planning.
He is passionate champion of integrated affordable housing, efficient and sustainable urban forms, and urban connectivity. He is also a founding partner in ComplexCity, a urban consultancy established in 2020, with three other graduates of the MSc in Cities degree programme.
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Good Constituency Office: George
0214032911
082 518 3264
bretth@forgood.org.za
bherron@parliament.gov.za
Alternate Member at Portfolio Committee on Social Development (National Assembly Committees)
since 22nd February 2022
Alternate Member at Portfolio Committee on Public Enterprises (National Assembly Committees)
since 22nd February 2022
Alternate Member at Portfolio Committee on Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (National Assembly Committees)
since 22nd February 2022
Member at Portfolio Committee on Human Settlements (National Assembly Committees)
since 22nd February 2022
Member at Committee for Section 194 Enquiry (Ad Hoc Committees)
since 22nd February 2022
Member at National Assembly (Parliament)
since 2nd February 2022
Constituency Contact at Good Constituency Office: George (Constituency Office)
since 1st June 2019
Member at Good (Party)
None at Ad-hoc Committee on Covid-19 Pandemic (Ad Hoc Committees)
from 14th April 2020 until 8th February 2022
Member at Programme Authority (Western-Cape-Provincial-Legislature-Committee)
from 3rd June 2019 until 8th February 2022
Alternate Member at Rules Committee (Western-Cape-Provincial-Committee)
from 3rd June 2019 until 8th February 2022
Member at Western Cape Provincial Legislature (Provincial-Legislature)
from 22nd May 2019 until 8th February 2022
4th Candidate at Good National Election List 2019 (Election List)
from 23rd April 2019 until 8th May 2019
2nd Candidate at Good Regional Western Cape Election List 2019 (Election List)
from 23rd April 2019 until 8th May 2019
2nd Candidate at Good Provincial Western Cape Election List 2019 (Election List)
from 23rd April 2019 until 8th May 2019
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Mr B Herron (GOOD) agreed that the Committee should complete this process as soon as it can, but it should ...
PP Inquiry day 55: Rodney Mataboge
23 Feb 2023
Mr B Herron (GOOD): Chair, I want to take us back to when we adopted the directives. I actually raised ...
PP Inquiry day 53: Rodney Mataboge
21 Feb 2023
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South African Law School (Pty) Ltd ComplexCity OY |
Legal Skills Training Urban Consultancy |
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House (50%) House |
Newlands, Cape Town Napier, WC |
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South African Law School (Pty) Ltd |
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R100 |
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