Qubudile Richard Dyantyi has represented the African National Congress (ANC) in the National Assembly since 2019. Before that,he was a Member of the Western Cape Provincial Parliament and served as the Western Cape's Member of the Executive Council (MEC) for Local Government and Housing from 2005 to 2008. In 2021,he was elected chairperson of the national parliament's Committee for the Section 194 Enquiry into Busisiwe Mkhwebane's fitness to hold office.
Tina Monica Joemat-Pettersson was a South African politician who served as the Chairperson of the Portfolio Committee on Police from July 2019 until her death in June 2023. A member of the African National Congress,Joemat-Petterson had previously served as the Minister of Agriculture,Forestry and Fisheries from 2009 until 2014 and as the Minister of Energy from May 2014 until March 2017 under President Jacob Zuma.
Lourens Bosman is a South African politician for the opposition Freedom Front Plus,and the former President of AgriSA. He served as a Member of Parliament for the official opposition Democratic Alliance,first as Shadow Minister of Agriculture,Forestry and Fisheries and then as Shadow Deputy Minister of Higher Education and Training,before defecting to the FF+ in 2014.
Dion George is a South African politician who is currently serving as the Minister of Environment,Forestry and Fisheries since July 2024. He is a Member of Parliament for the Democratic Alliance (DA) He is the Federal Finance Chair of the DA,and is a member of the Party’s Federal Council,Federal Executive and National Management Committee. He also serves as a member–elected Trustee and Chair of the Investment Sub–Committee of the Political Office Bearers Pension Fund.
James Lorimer is a South African politician,a Member of Parliament for the Democratic Alliance,and the Shadow Minister of Environmental Affairs,Forestry and Fisheries. Previously he has served as a deputy spokesperson on Parliament's defence and basic education committees,and as Shadow Minister on Co-operative Governance and Traditional Affairs as well as Mineral Affairs. He was first elected to the National Assembly in 2009.
Sekunjalo Investment Holdings is a South Africa-based private equity firm specializing in acquisitions,PIPEs,and buyouts. It has principal operations in publishing,Internet,fishing,healthcare,pharmaceuticals,telecommunication,financial services,aquaculture,biotechnology,enterprise development,events management,travel. The company was founded by Iqbal Survéand three others in 1996 with the aim of investing and assisting black-owned businesses.
Iqbal Survé is a South African entrepreneur,billionaire,medical doctor,and self-professed philanthropist. He is the Chairman of Sekunjalo Investment Holdings,a diversified investment firm based in Cape Town,and the Chairman of Independent Media,one of South Africa's largest media companies. Survéis a controversial figure linked to Jacob Zuma and has been accused of editorial interference across Independent Media titles. He has also reportedly failed to repay loans from the government-controlled Public Investment Corporation and has been accused of using pensioners' money to fund his companies,his lifestyle and his property portfolio.
Zelda Jongbloed was a veteran South African journalist and politician. She was a Member of the National Assembly for the Democratic Alliance from 2014 to 2018. She was Shadow Deputy Minister of Agriculture,Forestry and Fisheries and Shadow Deputy Minister of Public Service and Administration. Jongbloed worked for the Rapport and Die Burger in senior positions.
Annette Steyn is a South African retired politician,formerly a Member of the National Assembly for the official opposition Democratic Alliance (DA). Steyn was first elected to Parliament in 2009 and served in the Shadow Cabinet in various positions. She was also at one stage the DA Eastern Cape Provincial Chairperson.
Pemmy Castelina Pamela Majodina is a South African politician from the Eastern Cape. A member of the African National Congress (ANC),she has been the Minister of Water and Sanitation since July 2024. Between May 2019 and June 2024,she was the Chief Whip of the Majority Party in the National Assembly of South Africa.
Andricus Pieter van der Westhuizen is a South African politician who served as a Member of the Western Cape Provincial Parliament from May 2019 until May 2024. Prior to serving in the provincial parliament,he served in the national parliament as a Member of the National Assembly from May 2009 until May 2019. Van der Westhuizen is a member of the Democratic Alliance.
Hannah Shameema Winkler is a South African politician. She is a member of parliament for the Democratic Alliance and the party's former shadow deputy minister of environment,forestry and fisheries.
David William Bryant is a South African politician serving as a Member of the Western Cape Provincial Parliament for the Democratic Alliance since 2024. Prior to his election to the Provincial Parliament,he was a Member of Parliament and the Shadow Minister of Environment,Forestry and Fisheries from 2020 until 2024. Bryant was a proportional representation councillor of the City of Cape Town between 2009 and 2011,and then served as the ward councillor for ward 77 from 2011 to 2016. Bryant was the ward councillor for ward 115 from 2016 to 2020.
Cheryl Phillips is a South African politician from the North West who served in the National Assembly from May 2019 until May 2024. A member of the Democratic Alliance,she was the Shadow Deputy Minister of Mineral Resources and Energy from June 2019 to December 2020,the Shadow Deputy Minister of Environment,Forestry and Fisheries from December 2020 until April 2023 and the Shadow Deputy Minister of the Standing Committee on the Auditor General from April 2023 until May 2024. Phillips had previously served as a ward councillor in Rustenburg.
Mimmy Martha Gondwe is a South African politician serving as the Deputy Minister of Higher Education since 2024. A member of the Democratic Alliance,Gondwe was Shadow Deputy Minister of State Security from 2019 to 2020,the Shadow Deputy Minister of Public Service and Administration between 2020 and 2023,and the Shadow Minister of Public Enterprises from 2023 until 2024. She has been a Member of Parliament (MP) in the National Assembly since May 2019.
Baxolile Babongile Nodada is a South African politician for the Democratic Alliance who has been a Member of Parliament since 2019. He served as the Shadow Minister of Basic Education and the Parliamentary Counsellor to the Leader of the Opposition in John Steenhuisen's Shadow Cabinet from 2020 until the DA entered national government in July 2024.
Traverse Anatole Le Goff is a South African actor and politician who has served as a Member of the National Assembly of South Africa since November 2022. As a member of the Democratic Alliance,South Africa's official opposition,Le Goff had previously served as a Councillor of the City of Cape Town.
Theo Willem Coetzee was a South African politician. He served as a member of the National Assembly of South Africa for the Democratic Alliance from 2009 until his defection to the Freedom Front Plus ahead of the 2014 general election. From 2019 Coetzee was the sole representative of the Freedom Front Plus in the Eastern Cape Provincial Legislature.
Langa Zita is a South African politician and intellectual who represented the African National Congress (ANC) in the National Assembly from 1999 to 2009,serving the Gauteng constituency. A former regional organiser for the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) and a former political education officer at the South African Communist Party (SACP),Zita has served all three wings of the Tripartite Alliance. He was a member of the SACP Central Committee from 1998 to 2002.
The Cape Town Press Club is the oldest press club in South Africa. Founded in 1975 as a voluntary association of journalists,it has since become a non-profit organisation supporting freedom of the press. It is based in Cape Town,South Africa and hosts public and private gatherings with invited speakers from public life.
