Mr Michael Bagraim

National Assembly

About Michael Bagraim

Mr Michael Bagraim matriculated at Cape Town High School and graduated from Rhodes University with a BA in Political Science and thereafter an LLB. He was a member of the Student Representative Council for two years and represented the University on the Debating Society and Law Students' Association. He is a Practicing Attorney as a Consultant with Bagraim's Attorneys. He is also a trustee at the Cape Chamber of Commerce & Industries (Immediate Past President), the South African Jewish Board of Deputies (Past National President) and the MOSAIC – Training and Healing Centre for Women. Mr Bagraim is a regular contributor on industrial relations and labour law to radio, TV, newspapers and magazines.

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2020 committee attendance as mp

93% attendance rate

Attended 27 meetings out of 29

2019 committee attendance as mp

95% attendance rate

Attended 21 meetings out of 22

2018 committee attendance as mp

88% attendance rate

Attended 28 meetings out of 32

2017 committee attendance as mp

95% attendance rate

Attended 20 meetings out of 21

2016 committee attendance as mp

100% attendance rate

Attended 23 meetings out of 23

2015 committee attendance as mp

88% attendance rate

Attended 21 meetings out of 24

2014 committee attendance as mp

(From the start of the Fifth Parliament)

78% attendance rate

Attended 14 meetings out of 18

Attendance Methodology

Recent meetings attended

Employment and Labour — Employment Equity A/B: briefing; DEL 2019/20 preliminary annual report; Quarterly Performance Reports — 28 Oct 2020
Employment and Labour — DEL preliminary assessment of 2019/20 annual report; with Deputy Minister — 21 Oct 2020
Employment and Labour — Quarterly Labour Force Survey: StatsSA briefing; NEHAWU Memorandum — 14 Oct 2020
Employment and Labour — Committee fourth quarter programme — 7 Oct 2020
Employment and Labour — UIF Covid-19 TERS Payments Special Audit Report; with Ministry — 4 Sep 2020

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 Employment and Labour (National Assembly Committees) since 27th June 2019
Member at National Assembly (Parliament) since 22nd May 2019
Member at Democratic Alliance (DA) (Party)

Formerly

7th Candidate at Democratic Alliance Regional Western Cape Election List 2019 (Election List) from 23rd April 2019 until 8th May 2019
Member at Portfolio Committee on Labour (National Assembly Committees) from 20th June 2014 until 7th May 2019
Member at National Assembly (Parliament) from 21st May 2014 until 7th May 2019
Constituency Contact at DA Constituency Area: iThemba (Constituency Area) from August 2015 until December 2017
Member-elect at National Assembly (Parliament) from 16th May 2014 until 21st May 2014
12nd Candidate at Democratic Alliance Regional Western Cape Election List 2014 (Election List) from 22nd April 2014 until 7th May 2014
61st Candidate at Democratic Alliance National Election List 2014 (Election List) from 22nd April 2014 until 7th May 2014

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Parliament Register of Members' Interests 2018 [Source]

TRUSTS

Details Of Benefits	Trustee/Beneficiary	Name Of Trusts	Registration Number
-	-	Michael Davis Family Trust	006127/1996
-	-	The Good Start Trust	001113/2017

LAND AND PROPERTY

Description	Extent	Location
Sectional Scheme	Sectional Title	Cape Town
Sectional Scheme	Sectional Title	Cape Town
Sectional Scheme	Sectional Title	Cape Town
Sectional Scheme	Sectional Title	Cape Town
Erf	Residential	Vredehoek, Cape Town
Sectional scheme	Sectional Title	Cape Town
Sectional scheme	Sectional Title	Cape Town
Sectional scheme	Sectional title	Cape Town
Sectional Scheme	Sectional title	Cape Town
Sectional Scheme	Sectional title	Cape Town
Erf	Residential	Milnerton, Cape Town
Sectional Scheme	Sectional title	Cape Town

REMUNERATED EMPLOYMENT OUTSIDE PARLIAMENT

Name of Whip	Type of Business	Approved	Employer
Mr John Steenhuisen	Attorney	Yes	Self Employed

CONSULTANCIES OR RETAINERSHIPS

Name	Activity
Self Employed	Attorney

DIRECTORSHIP AND PARTNERSHIPS

Directorship/Partnership	Type of Business
Director	Radio Disa
Director	Altitude Employment Solutions
Director	Winn Foundation (RF)
Director	Isamark Investments

Parliament Register of Members' Interests 2017 [Source]

TRAVEL

Description	Sponsor
Trip for Fact Finding	South African Jewish Board of Deputies

DIRECTORSHIP AND PARTNERSHIPS

Directorship/Partnership	Type of Business
Toi-Toi Clothing Manufacturing (Deregistration)	Clothing Manufacturing
We Care - Siyakhathala (Final Deregistration)	Deregistration
All Glass Parow	Resigned
Altitude Employment Solutions	Employment Solutions
Bagraim Sachs	Resigned
Michael Bagraim and Associates Attorneys
Democracy Development Program (RF)	Resigned
Isamark Investments	Investments
Mosiac Womens Training Service and Healing Centre	Resigned
South African Jewish Trust	Resigned
Zoop Industries	Resigned
Bagro
Barbuxton Property	Resigned
Elysium Holdings	Resigned
Man-Tra Enterprises	In Business
Soft Touch Technologies	Resigned
Salient Strategic Advertising and design	Resigned
Slick Property Investments	Investments

CONSULTANCIES OR RETAINERSHIPS

Name	Value	Activity
Bagraims Attorneys	Nil	Attorneys
Bagraims Sachs Attorneys	Nil	Attorneys

LAND AND PROPERTY

Description	Location	Extent
Unit	Cape Town
Unit	Cape Town
Unit	Cape Town
Erf 2221	Milnerton, Cape Town	House
Erf 1719	Vredehoek, Cape Town	House
Unit	Cape Town	House
Unit	Cape Town	House
Unit	Cape Town	House
Unit	Cape Town	House
Unit	Cape Town	House
Unit	Cape Town	House
Unit	Cape Town	House
Unit	Cape Town	House
Unit	Cape Town	House
Unit	Cape Town	House

Parliament Register of Members' Interests 2016 [Source]

LAND AND PROPERTY

Description	Location
Unit	Cape Town
Unit	Cape Town
Unit	Cape Town
Erf	George
Erf	Vredehoek
Unit	Cape Town
Unit	Cape Town
Unit	Cape Town
Unit	Cape Town
Unit	Cape Town
Unit	Cape Town
Unit	Cape Town
Unit	Cape Town
Erf	Milnerton, Cape Town

REMUNERATED EMPLOYMENT OUTSIDE PARLIAMENT

Name of Whip	Type of Business	Approved	Employer
J Steenhuisen	Law firm	Yes	Self employed

CONSULTANCIES OR RETAINERSHIPS

Name	Value	Activity
Bagraims Attorneys	R100 000	Attorneys

DIRECTORSHIP AND PARTNERSHIPS

Directorship/Partnership	Type of Business
Altitude Employment Solutions	Private Co.
Mosaic Women's Training Service and Healing Centre	NGO
BAGRO
MAN-TRA Enterprises

Parliament Register of Members' Interests 2015 [Source]

LAND AND PROPERTY

Description	Extent	Location
Apartment	2 Bedroomed	Hermanus
Apartment	2 Bedroomed	Cape Town

REMUNERATED EMPLOYMENT OUTSIDE PARLIAMENT

Name of Whip	Type of Business	Approved	Employer
J Steenhuisen	Attorney	Yes	Self employed

CONSULTANCIES OR RETAINERSHIPS

Name	Value	Activity
Bagraim Sachs	NIl	Attorneys

DIRECTORSHIP AND PARTNERSHIPS

Directorship/Partnership	Type of Business
Altitude Employment Solutions	Private Co.
Democracy Development Program	NGO
Michael Bagraim and Associates	CC
Mosaic Women's Training Service and Healing Centre	NGO
Elysium Holdings	[Deregistration process]

Parliament Register of Members' Interests 2014 [Source]

SHARES AND OTHER FINANCIAL INTERESTS

Name of Company	Nature	Nominal Value	No
Bagraim Sachs Partnership	Attorneys
Democracy Development Program	Development
Mosaic Women's Training Service	Training
Isamash CC	Property	R1m	20%
Altitude Employment	Altitude Employment
Michael Bagraim & Associates	Property	R500 000	100%

LAND AND PROPERTY

Description	Extent	Location
3 Apartments	1 Bedroomed each	Observatory, CPT
House	4 Bedroomed	City Bowl, CPT

REMUNERATED EMPLOYMENT OUTSIDE PARLIAMENT

Name of Whip	Type of Business	Approved	Employer
DT George	Attorneys	Yes	Self employed

CONSULTANCIES OR RETAINERSHIPS

Name	Value	Activity
Bagraim Attorneys	+-R20 000	Attorneys
Bagraim Sachs Attorneys	Nil	Attorneys

DIRECTORSHIP AND PARTNERSHIPS

Directorship/Partnership	Type of Business
Altitude Employment Solutions	Private Company
Bagraim Sachs	Personal Liability Company
Democracy Development Program	NGO
Michael Bagraim and Associates	CC
Mosaic Women's Training Service and Healing Centre	NGO

Committee appearances

Quarterly Labour Force Survey: StatsSA briefing; NEHAWU Memorandum 14 Oct 2020

Mr M Bagraim (DA) appreciated the good work done by StatsSA , despite the Covid-19 limitations. The lockdown had affected everything, including the efforts of the statistics team.
UIF Covid-19 TERS benefit: AGSA benefits; COVID-19 procurement matters pertaining to disaster relief measures: DEL briefing 4 Sep 2020

Mr M Bagraim (DA) asked if there was room for the SIU to investigate UIF management for the cases of fraud that had been exposed. AGSA had to explain if it found anything connecting the fraud to UIF officials and management.
Department of Employment 2019/20 Quarter 3 & 4 performance 2 Sep 2020

Mr M Bagraim (DA) said the Committee is hearing a lot of fantastic stuff from the DG, but the reality is a lot of people in the public are not happy with the performance of the Department, but are very unhappy. The Department should reassess its targets, and instead of ...
Department of Employment and Labour 2019/20 Quarter 3 & 4 performance 26 Aug 2020

Mr M Bagraim (DA) noted that the Compensation Fund was trying to improve its controls. He asked why the majority of private doctors were refusing to treat Compensation Fund patients due to not being paid by the Fund. This ultimately affected the employees who were unable to receive medical assistance ...
DEL Budget: Committee Report 15 Jul 2020

Mr M Bagraim (DA) says that he is objecting to the budget being cut on the inspection and enforcements services because they are so desperate to have the laws enforced and even with the 500, this is not enough. The inspectors do not get around to all businesses because there ...

All Committee Appearances

Questions

Questions asked to the Minister of Finance 29 Sep 2020

(1)Whether the National Treasury will offer any form of Covid-19 financial and/or other relief to small businesses; if not, why not; if so, what are the relevant details; (2) whether the Covid-19 financial and/or other relief will only be allocated to qualifying small businesses according to the ...
Questions asked to the Minister of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs 25 Aug 2020

What (a) are the relevant details and (b) is the total (i) number and (ii) total amount of all disbursements made available to each province by her department in response to Covid-19 pandemic?
Questions asked to the Minister of Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development 6 Aug 2020

What are the relevant details of (a)(i) land reform farms, (ii) productive farms and (iii) non-productive farms in the Northern Cape and (iv) the reasons that the specified farms are non-productive, (b) the total amounts of recapitalisation funding spent on each farm since they were purchased, (c) the actions ...

All Questions and Answers

Plenary appearances

UNIDENTIFIED MEMBER: MINISTER? 10 Jul 2019

... no! Thank you.
UNIDENTIFIED MEMBER: MINISTER? 10 Jul 2019

Chairperson, hon Minister, director-general, my family and students, thank you for coming. 'The time has come,' the walrus said, "to talk of many things. Our Department of Employment and Labour is dysfunctional. I receive literally dozens of desperate pleas from injured employees and many more complaints from retrenched Unemployment Insurance ...

All Plenary Appearances

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Parliament Register of Members' Interests 2018 [Source]

TRUSTS

LAND AND PROPERTY

REMUNERATED EMPLOYMENT OUTSIDE PARLIAMENT

CONSULTANCIES OR RETAINERSHIPS

DIRECTORSHIP AND PARTNERSHIPS

Parliament Register of Members' Interests 2017 [Source]

TRAVEL

DIRECTORSHIP AND PARTNERSHIPS

CONSULTANCIES OR RETAINERSHIPS

LAND AND PROPERTY

Parliament Register of Members' Interests 2016 [Source]

LAND AND PROPERTY

REMUNERATED EMPLOYMENT OUTSIDE PARLIAMENT

CONSULTANCIES OR RETAINERSHIPS

DIRECTORSHIP AND PARTNERSHIPS

Parliament Register of Members' Interests 2015 [Source]

LAND AND PROPERTY

REMUNERATED EMPLOYMENT OUTSIDE PARLIAMENT

CONSULTANCIES OR RETAINERSHIPS

DIRECTORSHIP AND PARTNERSHIPS

Parliament Register of Members' Interests 2014 [Source]

SHARES AND OTHER FINANCIAL INTERESTS

LAND AND PROPERTY

REMUNERATED EMPLOYMENT OUTSIDE PARLIAMENT

CONSULTANCIES OR RETAINERSHIPS

DIRECTORSHIP AND PARTNERSHIPS

Committee appearances

Questions

Plenary appearances