Ms Bridget Staff Masango

National Assembly

Formerly: National Council of Provinces

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@masangobridget1

Party

Democratic Alliance (DA)

Email

masangobridget11@gmail.com

Phone

Constituency Offices

Not associated with any constituency offices

Province

Gauteng

About Bridget Staff Masango

How did you become involved in politics and what drew you to your specific party? Having grown up in rural KZN, witnessing and experiencing challenges that were a direct result of the politics of the day, I developed a curious interest in making any contribution I could. I did not expect government to do everything for me and those around me, but instead chose to come up with solutions to the challenges. I did not see a need to be in active politics in the beginning but always helped my party during elections to ferry the elderly who wanted to go and vote but could not walk long distances to the voting stations. The principles of my party are what drew me to it: freedom, fairness and opportunity. More here...

2019 committee attendance as mp

86% attendance rate

Attended 18 meetings out of 21

2018 committee attendance as mp

100% attendance rate

Attended 22 meetings out of 22

2017 committee attendance as mp

92% attendance rate

Attended 23 meetings out of 25

2016 committee attendance as mp

56% attendance rate

Attended 23 meetings out of 41

2015 committee attendance as mp

66% attendance rate

Attended 23 meetings out of 35

2014 committee attendance as mp

(From the start of the Fifth Parliament)

71% attendance rate

Attended 15 meetings out of 21

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

Social Development — Foster Care Progress Report on High Court Order — 23 Oct 2019
Social Development — Social Development Budgetary Review and Recommendations Report — 16 Oct 2019
Social Development — DSD, NDA & SASSA 2018/19 Annual Reports — 9 Oct 2019
Social Development — Social Development audit outcomes 2018/19; DSD-SASSA-SAPO financial relationship: AGSA briefing — 8 Oct 2019
Social Development — DSD on turnaround strategy to address backlog in the Foster Care System & meet North Gauteng High Court deadline, with Minister — 18 Sep 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

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

Formerly

68th Candidate at Democratic Alliance Provincial Gauteng Election List 2019 (Election List) from 23rd April 2019 until 8th May 2019
58th Candidate at Democratic Alliance National Election List 2019 (Election List) from 23rd April 2019 until 8th May 2019
14th Candidate at Democratic Alliance Regional Gauteng Election List 2019 (Election List) from 23rd April 2019 until 8th May 2019
Member at Portfolio Committee on Social Development (National Assembly Committees) from 15th October 2015 until 7th May 2019
Member at National Assembly (Parliament) from 6th October 2015 until 7th May 2019
Member at Select Committee on Land and Mineral Resources (Ncop Committees) from June 2014 until 5th October 2015
Member at Select Committee on Education and Recreation (Ncop Committees) from June 2014 until 5th October 2015
Member at Select Committee on Communications and Public Enterprises (Ncop Committees) from June 2014 until 5th October 2015
Alternate Member at Select Committee on Social Services (Ncop Committees) from June 2014 until 5th October 2015
Delegate at National Council of Provinces (Parliament) from 22nd May 2014 until 5th October 2015
87th Candidate at Democratic Alliance National Election List 2014 (Election List) from 22nd April 2014 until 7th May 2014
28th Candidate at Democratic Alliance Regional Gauteng Election List 2014 (Election List) from 22nd April 2014 until 7th May 2014

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Parliament Register of Members' Interests 2015 [Source]

PENSIONS

Source	Public/Private
Glacier	Private

SHARES AND OTHER FINANCIAL INTERESTS

Nature	No	Name of Company
Ordinary	100	MTN
Ordinary	70	Sasol [Inzalo]

DIRECTORSHIP AND PARTNERSHIPS

Directorship/Partnership	Type of Business
Chesswood Holdings [Resigned]	Private Co.
Masambeni Investments	CC
Rural Shik	Private Co.
Scarlet Dawn Trading 163	CC
Swenkas Leather	CC
Emerge Communications	CC
Mkungu Transport Enterprises	Transport

LAND AND PROPERTY

Description	Extent	Location
House	320sq.m.	Evander
Land	+-1 000sq.m.	Devon
Land	+-1 000sq.m.	Devon

Parliament Register of Members' Interests 2014 [Source]

PENSIONS

Source	Public/Private
Glacier	Private

SHARES AND OTHER FINANCIAL INTERESTS

Nominal Value	No	Name of Company	Nature
R129	148	MTN	Ordinary
	70	Sasol Inzalo	Ordinary

DIRECTORSHIP AND PARTNERSHIPS

Directorship/Partnership	Type of Business
Khetha Communications
Rural Shik
Phase
Emerge Communications	CC
Supedi [Resigned]
Revivre [Resigned]
Scarlet Dawn [Resigned]
Tsiba [Resigned]
Mkungu Transport	Transport and coal sale

LAND AND PROPERTY

Description	Extent	Location
Land - Erf 197	1 923sq.m.	Devon
Land - Erf 198	1 923sq.m.	Devon

Committee appearances

Social Development Budgetary Review and Recommendations Report 16 Oct 2019

Ms B Masango (DA) wanted to know whether the issue of specific impact, as it related to the report by the DSD, was captured in the SMART principle.
DSD, NDA & SASSA 2018/19 Annual Reports 9 Oct 2019

Ms B Masango (DA) said the Annual Report spoke of the social relief of distress regime as being fragmented, the legislative framework being outdated and the institutional arrangements as being de-funded This was reiterated in the SASSA presentation and she wanted clarification on what the DSD planned to do to ...
Social Development audit outcomes 2018/19; DSD-SASSA-SAPO financial relationship: AGSA briefing 8 Oct 2019

Ms B Masango (DA) asked if there is any help from internal audit committee when AGSA does its work. She asked how many years the SASSA investigations had continued. She referred to managers not responding to recommendations with the required urgency and asked what the AG does when that happens.
Induction Workshop: AGSA briefing; High Level Panel recommendations: Department of Social Development response 11 Sep 2019

Ms B Masango (DA) asked if the Social Development entities are going to go forward to address the audit action plan or are they going to continue going backwards, especially DSD for 2018/19; as the Amendment Act was only brought into operation in April 2019.
Backlogs in Foster Care System and plans to address it: DSD briefing 4 Sep 2019

Ms B Masango (DA) said the backlogs are uncontrollable. The Department is unable to deal with the backlog due to the lack of resources. The provincial departments do not have resources to deal with the backlogs either. She is not confident that DSD will meet the November 2019 deadline. The ...

All Committee Appearances

Questions

Questions asked to the Minister of Social Development 1 Oct 2019

What does her department intend doing to show caregivers that they are officially acknowledged?
Questions asked to the Minister of Social Development 1 Oct 2019

(1)What total number of (a) enquiries have been recorded regarding offenders in the Child Protection Register in the past three years and (b) offenders are in the Child Protection Register; (2) whether she will furnish Mrs B S Masango with the provincial statistics of offenders as recorded in the ...
Questions asked to the Minister of Social Development 18 Jul 2019

(a) What number of forensic social workers are currently employed by her department in each province, (b) where are the forensic social workers based, (c) which (i) official and (ii) other languages are the forensic social workers proficient in and (d) what is the average case load that each forensic ...

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