Vusumuzi Cyril Xaba

National Assembly

Formerly: KwaZulu-Natal Provincial Legislature

rmichaels@parliament.gov.za xabavc@worldonline.co.za

About Vusumuzi Cyril Xaba

Mr Xaba was born in KwaZulu-Natal in 1967. Mr Xaba was in the KwaZulu-Natal Legislature as a Member (1994-2009 and 2014-2019). He served in the KwaZulu-Natal Executive Council (2014-2016)as MEC for Agriculture and Rural Development.

Mr Xaba studied law at the University of Natal in Durban and holds a Master of Laws (LLM) from the University of KwaZulu-Natal.

Mr Xaba has held leadership roles in organisations such as the Congress of South African Students (COSAS), Natal Students Congress, University of Natal Black Students Society, ANC Youth League, ANC Regional Executive Committee and ANC Provincial Executive Committee.

He currently serves as Chairperson of the Portfolio Committee on Defence and Military Veterans

2020 committee attendance as mp

100% attendance rate

Attended 22 meetings out of 22

2019 committee attendance as mp

96% attendance rate

Attended 22 meetings out of 23

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

Defence — National Conventional Arms Control Committee on 2020 Quarter 1 Report; with Ministers — 25 Jun 2020
Defence and Military Veterans — DMV Appeals Board on its mandate, challenges and achievements; with Deputy Minister — 24 Jun 2020
Defence — COVID-19 SANDF deployment, with Deputy Minister — 18 Jun 2020
Defence and Military Veterans — Military Ombud Annual Performance Plan; Feedback on number, age, and brief summary of cases the DOD has acted upon — 17 Jun 2020
Defence and Military Veterans — Devolution of responsibility for infrastructure from DPW to Defence Works Formation; with Minister and Deputy Minister — 10 Jun 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

non-voting member at Ad Hoc Committee to Amend Section 25 of the Constitution (Ad Hoc Committees) since 10th February 2020
Chairperson at Portfolio Committee on Defence and Military Veterans (National Assembly Committees) since 2nd July 2019
Member at Joint Standing Committee on Defence (Joint Committees) since 27th June 2019
Member at Constitutional Review Committee (National Assembly Committees) since 27th June 2019
Member at Portfolio Committee on Defence and Military Veterans (National Assembly Committees) since 27th June 2019
Member at National Assembly (Parliament) since 22nd May 2019
Member at African National Congress (ANC) (Party)

Formerly

1st Candidate at African National Congress Regional KwaZulu-Natal Election List 2019 (Election List) from 23rd April 2019 until 8th May 2019
Member at KwaZulu-Natal Provincial Legislature (Provincial-Legislature) from 21st May 2014 until 7th May 2019
Member-elect at KwaZulu-Natal Provincial Legislature (Provincial-Legislature) from 16th May 2014 until 21st May 2014
17th Candidate at African National Congress Provincial KwaZulu-Natal Election List 2014 (Election List) from 22nd April 2014 until 7th May 2014

Committee appearances

National Conventional Arms Control Committee on 2020 Quarter 1 Report 25 Jun 2020

The Chairperson said the National Conventional Arms Control Committee (NCACC) would brief the Joint Standing Committee on its 2020 first quarter report. South Africa ensured that while it maintained an effective and competitive defence industry, it also conformed to its international obligations regarding the export of weapons. It reported to ...
Border safeguarding & deployment of SANDF members during COVID-19 18 Jun 2020

The Chairperson said this was a follow up to the 22 April 2020 meeting on the SANDF deployment in response to COVID-19. He noted that the Minister of Defence had excused herself from the meeting due to a bereavement in the family. The Deputy Minister of Defence would join the ...
Devolution of responsibility for infrastructure from DPW to Defence Works Formation 10 Jun 2020

The Chairperson welcomed the Minister, Deputy Minister and Committee Members to the meeting.
Defence Force Service Commission on responses to questions raised previously; Findings on conditions of service since inception 4 Jun 2020

The Chairperson said that this report was not received by the Committee; Members were seeing it for the first time, and it was difficult to follow. What percentage of the recommendations were accepted and implemented by the Minister? The recommendations from 2016 and 2017 appeared to be adding up and ...
DoD & DMV Quarter 4 performance 3 Jun 2020

The Chairperson said that Dr Sam Gulube, Secretary of Defence, would no longer be the Accounting Officer for the Department of Military Veterans (DMV), as the Department would have its own vote, Vote 26. Lt Gen (Ret) Derrick Mgwebi, Acting Director-General, would be the Accounting Officer.

All Committee Appearances

Questions

No questions found

Plenary appearances

THE RECENT INCIDENTS OF VIOLENCE AND CRIMINALITY IN THE COUNTRY, INCLUDING THOSE AFFECTING FOREIGN NATIONALS 10 Sep 2019

Hon Deputy Speaker, hon Deputy President, hon Deputy Ministers, hon Ministers and hon members, let me thank the IFP for this debate. Let us take our memory back to our history as a nation, to remind ourselves of the context for crime and violence in South Africa, in order to ...
APPROPRIATION BILL 17 Jul 2019

Hon Chairperson, hon Minister, hon Deputy Minister, hon Members of Parliament, my predecessor, Mr Motimela, Chief of the Defence Force, the Secretary of the Defence Force, guests in the gallery, the mission of the Department of Defence is to provide, manage, prepare and deploy defence capabilities commensurate with the needs ...

All Plenary Appearances

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