Mr Zakhele Njabulo Mbhele

National Assembly

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Party

Democratic Alliance (DA)

Email

voxprimus@gmail.com

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Constituency Offices

Not associated with any constituency offices

Province

Western Cape

About Zakhele Njabulo Mbhele

Zakhele Mbhele (born 9 November 1984) is an MP of the Democratic Alliance in the National Assembly. Mr Mbhele joined the DA in late 2005 where he was a candidate contesting the Student Representative Council (SRC) at Wits University under a DA affiliated banner. Mr Mbhele then particpated in the youth structures of the DA. He served as a Media Liaison Officer for Western Cape Premier, Ms Helen Zille, from November 2011 to May 2014. He was then elected to the National Assembly (NA) in 2014 where he served the Portfolio Committee on Police

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2019 committee attendance as mp

86% attendance rate

Attended 24 meetings out of 28

2018 committee attendance as mp

97% attendance rate

Attended 59 meetings out of 61

2017 committee attendance as mp

98% attendance rate

Attended 47 meetings out of 48

2016 committee attendance as mp

95% attendance rate

Attended 42 meetings out of 44

2015 committee attendance as mp

91% attendance rate

Attended 39 meetings out of 43

2014 committee attendance as mp

(From the start of the Fifth Parliament)

94% attendance rate

Attended 17 meetings out of 18

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Recent meetings attended

Small Business Development — Processes and procedures in developing legislation; Summary and analysis of legislation administered by DSBD — 27 Nov 2019
Small Business Development — DSBD 2019/10 Quarter 2 Performance & Action Plan on Auditor-General’s Findings and Recommendations — 20 Nov 2019
Small Business Development — “The Unseen Sector”: Research paper by International Finance Corporation & World Bank — 13 Nov 2019
Small Business Development — Access to Affordable Business Premises and Infrastructure briefing — 6 Nov 2019
Small Business Development — Access to Markets – Major Issues for consideration — 30 Oct 2019

All meetings attended

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Currently

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

Formerly

5th 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 Police (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: Athlone 2 (Constituency Area) from 10th May 2014 until December 2017
Member-elect at National Assembly (Parliament) from 16th May 2014 until 21st May 2014
5th Candidate at Democratic Alliance Regional Western Cape Election List 2014 (Election List) from 22nd April 2014 until 7th May 2014

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Parliament Register of Members' Interests 2018 [Source]

DIRECTORSHIP AND PARTNERSHIPS

Directorship/Partnership	Type of Business
Five-Oh-Two	Gastronomy Events
Director- Thoth Media	Media
Director - Concerts in the Park	Community Concerts

LAND AND PROPERTY

Description	Extent	Location
Erf 1651	1677 m2	Deneysville

Parliament Register of Members' Interests 2017 [Source]

DIRECTORSHIP AND PARTNERSHIPS

Directorship/Partnership	Type of Business
Concerts in the Park	Free community Concerts
Five-oh-two	Gastronomy events
Thoth Media	Media

LAND AND PROPERTY

Description	Extent	Location
Erf 1651	1677sq.m	Deneysville

Parliament Register of Members' Interests 2016 [Source]

DIRECTORSHIP AND PARTNERSHIPS

Directorship/Partnership	Type of Business
Five-On-Two	Gastronomy events
Thoth Media	Online
Concerts in the park	NGO community concerts

LAND AND PROPERTY

Description	Extent	Location
Erf 1651	1 677sq.m.	Deneysville

Parliament Register of Members' Interests 2015 [Source]

TRAVEL

Description	Sponsor
Study tour	Taiwan Government
Study tour	SA-Israel Forum

SPONSORSHIPS

Source	Description	Extent
Taiwan Government	Study tour	01-05 Dec. 2014
SA - Israel Forum	Study tour	05-10 Jan. 2015
Various hotel in Israel [study tour]		SA-Israel Forum

DIRECTORSHIP AND PARTNERSHIPS

Directorship/Partnership	Type of Business
Thoth Media	Media
Concerts in the Park	Free community concerts
Zip Zap Circus School	Circus training

GIFTS AND HOSPITALITY

Source	Description	Value
Taiwan Foreign Affairs Ministry	Okura Hotel [study tour]	Unknown

LAND AND PROPERTY

Description	Extent	Location
Erf 1651	1 677sq.m.	Deneysville, Free State

Parliament Register of Members' Interests 2014 [Source]

DIRECTORSHIP AND PARTNERSHIPS

Directorship/Partnership	Type of Business
Thoth Media	Media production and sales - Events management
Concerts in the Park	Community music concerts

LAND AND PROPERTY

Description	Extent	Location
Erf 1651	1 677sq.m.	Deneysville

Committee appearances

Processes and procedures in developing legislation; Summary and analysis of legislation administered by DSBD 27 Nov 2019

Mr Z Mbhele (DA) commented on the timeframes for the processes, and said that technical Bills involved quick corrections, his own experience was that going clause by clause was a lengthy process.
DSBD 2019/10 Quarter 2 Performance & Action Plan on Auditor-General’s Findings and Recommendations 20 Nov 2019

Mr Z Mbhele (DA) asked the CFO for details on the R700 million that had been approved by National Treasury.
“The Unseen Sector”: Research paper by International Finance Corporation & World Bank 13 Nov 2019

Mr Z Mbhele (DA) said the issue of micro-financing had been touched on as part of the contextual analysis, but it had not come through strongly in terms of the baskets of recommendations – even in the finance pillar. His intuition of late was that micro-financing was a key lever that ...
Access to Markets – Major Issues for consideration 30 Oct 2019

Mr Z Mbhele (DA) said he had only one broad comment on the theme of access to markets, and a proposal in addition to one of the recommendations in the presentation. It seemed that when it came to the prospect for success for SMMEs in gaining sustainable access to markets ...
Probing of Violence against Foreign Nationals: 2008 & 2015 parliamentary reports; Entrepreneurial Finance Imperative for Growth and Employment & Access to Affordable Business Premises and Infrastructure 11 Sep 2019

Mr Z Mbhele (DA) welcomed the presentation and appreciated the challenging scale and complexity of the issue, especially since it involved different departments. The factors at play were structural. He recalled that countries like India and Brazil with large impoverished communities did not experience the same violent outbreaks against foreigners.

All Committee Appearances

Questions

Questions asked to the Minister of Communications 13 Dec 2019

(1)Whether the SA Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) will supply a list of (a) programmes licenced to KykNet up to the latest specified date for which information is available, (b) the fees attached to each transaction and (c) individual share of profit due to each of the (i) producers, (ii) writers ...
Questions asked to the Minister of Communications 11 Dec 2019

With reference to determining net profit of a commercial script, why does the SA Broadcasting Corporation insist on deducting fees paid to contract writers as if it is a royalty fee paid to a copyright owner?
Questions asked to the Minister in The Presidency for Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities 5 Dec 2019

In each of the past four financial years, what (a) amount of funding was disbursed by the National Youth Development Agency (NYDA), (b) number of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) were funded by NYDA, (c) number of jobs were created by the specified SMEs and (d) number of the SMEs ...

All Questions and Answers

Plenary appearances

CONSIDERATION OF BUDGETARY REVIEW AND RECOMMENDATION REPORT OF PORTFOLIO COMMITTEE ON SMALL BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT 6 Nov 2019

Deputy Speaker, the DA has always maintained that small business development is not a policy imperative that should solely be confined to a single part of government. That is our position that this department is entirely unnecessary. Rather, small business development should be championed across numerous portfolios where it has ...
ANC. 31 Oct 2019

Thank you hon Deputy Speaker, Mr President when it comes to job creation as it should flow from economic summits, small business is the key. The first step is to recognise how real jobs are created, that is, to abandon the fantasy that governments can create jobs and to look ...

All Plenary Appearances

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