Ms Princess Faku

National Assembly

Write a public message to this MP

About Princess Faku

2021 committee attendance as mp

93% attendance rate

Attended 39 meetings out of 42

2020 committee attendance as mp

95% attendance rate

Attended 70 meetings out of 74

2019 committee attendance as mp

77% attendance rate

Attended 10 meetings out of 13

Attendance Methodology

Recent meetings attended

Communications — MDDA Board: interviews — 7 Sep 2021
Communications — SABC Board & MDDA Board interviews — 7 Sep 2021
Communications — (Subcommittee) Media Development and Diversity Agency (MDDA) Board: interviews — 3 Sep 2021
Communications — (Subcommittee) SABC Board interviews — 3 Sep 2021
Communications — SABC, ICASA & MDDA Vacancies: reports on shortlisted candidates for interviews — 1 Sep 2021

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 Communications (National Assembly Committees) since 20th August 2019
Alternate Member at Portfolio Committee on Police (National Assembly Committees) since 20th August 2019
Member at National Assembly (Parliament) since 1st August 2019
Member at African National Congress (ANC) (Party)

Formerly

19th Candidate at African National Congress Regional Eastern Cape Election List 2019 (Election List) from 23rd April 2019 until 8th May 2019

Fetching the latest messages to Princess Faku…

Parliament Register of Members' Interests 2019 [Source]

PENSIONS

Public/Private	Source
Public	NYDD

DIRECTORSHIP AND PARTNERSHIPS

Type of Business Activity	Directorship/Partnership in any Corporate Body
PPCP Trading not operating	Partner
Printing not operating/never operated – Both companies are in the process of being deregistered.	Partner

LAND AND PROPERTY

Description of Property	Location – Area	Extent of the Property
Erf (Portion of Portion 81)	Division of Eastern Cape Province	Land value 310 000
Farm - division of EL of Eastern Cape Province	Eastern Cape	1276m²

Committee appearances

(Subcommittee) SABC Board Vacancy: Interviews 7 Sep 2021

Ms P Faku (ANC) said that there are challenges with the MDDA funding model as specified in the MDDA Act which means that capacity building, research and innovation by MDDA cannot be supported adequately. These are key challenges that need to be urgently addressed. What does the candidate think can ...
(Subcommittee) SABC Board Vacancy: Interviews 7 Sep 2021

Ms P Faku (ANC) noted the challenge of very high signal distribution costs. What can be done as most of the MDDA budget goes to such costs? Secondly, in the event of digital transformation, how can community media remain relevant and adopt new ways of doing business? Lastly, MDDA is ...
(Subcommittee) SABC Board Vacancy: Interviews 7 Sep 2021

Ms P Faku (ANC) asked what is the candidate’s understanding of the role of media and media diversity.
(Subcommittee) MDDA Board Vacancies: Interviews 7 Sep 2021

Ms P Faku (ANC) said that one of the key performance indicators (KPIs) MDDA was struggling to achieve was its research target. It has not achieved this in the past. MDDA had budget constraints and she asked the candidate to provide some solutions on what can be done to ensure ...
(Subcommittee) SABC Board Vacancy: Interviews 7 Sep 2021

Ms P Faku (ANC) asked what innovative ideas the candidate has to fast track the roll out of Digital Terrestrial Television (DTT) that will be used to grow the SABC. Secondly, what was the candidate’s understanding of a public broadcaster compared to a state broadcaster?

All Committee Appearances

Questions

No questions found

Plenary appearances

No appearances found

Correct this page