Thembisile Angel Khanyile

National Assembly

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About Thembisile Angel Khanyile

Ms Thembesile Khanyile is an MP from the Democratic Alliance. She currently serves in the Portfolio Committee on Home Affairs. Read her full blog here

2020 committee attendance as mp

78% attendance rate

Attended 18 meetings out of 23

2019 committee attendance as mp

88% attendance rate

Attended 15 meetings out of 17

2018 committee attendance as mp

100% attendance rate

Attended 2 meetings out of 2

Attendance Methodology

Recent meetings attended

Home Affairs — Electoral Laws Amendment Bill: legal opinion on inclusion of essential service; DHA Revised Annual Performance Plan — 23 Oct 2020
Home Affairs — Refugee situation in Cape Town: stakeholder engagement; with Minister and Deputy Minister — 20 Oct 2020
Home Affairs — Draft BRRR: Content Advisor briefing; Electoral Laws Amendments Bill: IEC briefing; with Minister and Deputy Minister — 9 Oct 2020
Home Affairs — Department of Home Affairs 2020/21 Quarter 1 performance of 2020; with Minister — 6 Oct 2020
Home Affairs — Refugees in Cape Town: stakeholder engagement postponed; with Ministry — 1 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 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

22nd Candidate at Democratic Alliance Provincial Mpumalanga Election List 2019 (Election List) from 23rd April 2019 until 8th May 2019
52nd Candidate at Democratic Alliance National Election List 2019 (Election List) from 23rd April 2019 until 8th May 2019
3rd Candidate at Democratic Alliance Regional Mpumalanga Election List 2019 (Election List) from 23rd April 2019 until 8th May 2019
Alternate Member at Portfolio Committee on Social Development (National Assembly Committees) from 9th March 2018 until 7th May 2019
Member at National Assembly (Parliament) from 1st December 2017 until 7th May 2019
Member at Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) (Party) until 2015
4th Candidate at Economic Freedom Fighters Regional Mpumalanga Election List 2014 (Election List) from 22nd April 2014 until 7th May 2014
193rd Candidate at Economic Freedom Fighters National Election List 2014 (Election List) from 22nd April 2014 until 7th May 2014

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Committee appearances

Refugee situation in Cape Town: stakeholder engagement 20 Oct 2020

Ms A Khanyile (DA) welcomed the presentation, and said the oversight scheduled to happen before the lockdown should still take place. The committee oversight over the Desmond Tutu Refugee Centre gave the impression immigration is a national competency. During an oversight visit, the Committee and the Department of Cooperative Governance ...
Draft BRRR: Content Advisor briefing; Electoral Laws Amendments Bill: IEC briefing 9 Oct 2020

Ms A Khanyile (DA) wanted to know if the IEC had a system to prevent double voting. She asked what functionality the new voting machines would provide, and how it differed from the Zip-Zap machines. She wanted to know if the IEC was considering an electronic voting system to accommodate ...
Department of Home Affairs 2020/21 Quarter 1 performance 6 Oct 2020

Ms A Khanyile (DA) welcomed the presentation by the Department and shared the sentiments of the assistance that was provided by the Acting Deputy Directors-General, Mr Matthews and Mr Thomas Sigama, during the lockdown. She acknowledged that the targets set by the Department could not be achieved because of COVID-19 ...
State of Dr J S Moroka & Lekwa Local Municipalities: stakeholder engagement; Local Government: Municipal Systems Amendment Bill: finalisation 4 Sep 2020

Ms A Khanyile (DA) asked the administrator to provide clarity on how the COVID-19 procurement and the distribution of PPE during level 5 of the lockdown. She asked if it was the community members or the employees of the municipality who were responsible for the service delivery protests that led ...
Situation of migrants during COVID-19 lockdown & update on refugee situation in Cape Town: stakeholder engagement 1 Sep 2020

Ms A Khanyile (DA) said the Democratic Alliance was not in favour of Mr Chabane’s election as Adv Bongo had not given reasons for his absence. A year ago, the DA had voted against the election of Adv Bongo as Committee Chairperson. However, African National Congress MPs had insisted ...

All Committee Appearances

Questions

Questions asked to the Minister of Home Affairs 13 Aug 2020

(1)By what date does he envisage that his department will be open for more services, such as letters for retention of SA Citizenship and passport applications and/or renewals; (2) by what date does he envisage that his department will be open for applications for new identity documents, as ...
Questions asked to the Minister of Home Affairs 3 Dec 2019

(1)What (a) is the current vacancy rate at his department’s offices in the Western Cape, (b) number of vacancies exist at each office and (c) is the job title of each vacancy in each case; (2) what number of immigration officers are currently employed at each of his ...
Questions asked to the Minister of Home Affairs 3 Dec 2019

What was the average turnaround time of his department’s services, including immigration and customs, pertaining to the (a) import and (b) export of goods at each port of entry in the Western Cape (i) in each of the past three years and (ii) since 1 January 2019?

All Questions and Answers

Plenary appearances

UNGQONGQOSHE WEZOBULUNGISWA NOKUHLONYULELISWA KWEZIMILO: 13 Nov 2019

Thank you House Chairperson and thanks to the Minister for the response, Basic Education circular 1 of 2019 provides a grace period for undocumented children to get their birth certificates or IDs before being thrown out of school, but with thousands of child-headed households, what would you do to reach ...
CONSIDERATION OF BUDGETARY REVIEW AND RECOMMENDATION REPORT OF PORTFOLIO COMMITTEE ON HOME AFFAIRS 12 Nov 2019

Thank you, hon Speaker. This department has a backlog on asylum seekers appeals of 150 000. It is of great concern that R200 billion has become a contingent liability. The e-visa was supposed to have been piloted in April. Today, seven months later and still in this House, speeches by ...

All Plenary Appearances

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