Cilliers Brink

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Cilliers Brink
MP
DA MP Cilliers Brink.jpg
Brink in May 2019
Shadow Minister of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs
Incumbent
Assumed office
5 December 2020
DeputyEleanore Bouw-Spies
LeaderJohn Steenhuisen
Preceded byHaniff Hoosen
Member of the National Assembly of South Africa
Incumbent
Assumed office
22 May 2019
Shadow Deputy Minister of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs
In office
5 June 2019 – 5 December 2020
LeaderJohn Steenhuisen
Mmusi Maimane
Preceded by[1]
Succeeded byEleanore Bouw-Spies
Personal details
Born (1987-06-02) 2 June 1987 (age 34)
NationalitySouth African
Political partyDemocratic Alliance
Residence(s)Pretoria
Alma materUniversity of Pretoria
OccupationMember of Parliament
ProfessionPolitician

Cilliers Brink (born 12 June 1987) is a South African politician serving as the Democratic Alliance's Shadow Minister of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs since 2020. Brink has been a Member of Parliament (MP) since 2019. He was the Shadow Deputy Minister of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs between 2019 and 2020 and a member of the mayoral committee of Tshwane between 2016 and 2019.

Education[]

Brink studied law at the University of Pretoria.[2]

Political career[]

Brink has had an interest in politics since a young age. He joined the Democratic Alliance and was elected to the Tshwane city council in 2011.[2] After the 2016 municipal elections, the DA gained control of Tshwane and Brink was appointed as the member of the mayoral committee for corporate and shared services, becoming the first DA politician to hold the post.[3]

Prior to the 2019 South African general election held on 8 May, the DA revealed their candidate lists. Brink was placed tenth on the party's Gauteng list of National Assembly candidates, thirty-third on the party's national candidate list for the National Assembly and sixty-seventh on the party's provincial list for the provincial legislature.[4] He was elected to the National Assembly on the party's national list.[5] Brink was sworn into office on 22 May 2019.[6]

On 5 June 2019, he was appointed Shadow Deputy Minister of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs.[7] Brink became a member of the Portfolio Committee on Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs on 27 June 2019.[8]

In June 2020, Brink criticised the national Minister of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs, Dr. Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, for saying that municipalities should appoint "the right cadres for the job". He went on to claim that cadre deployment is responsible for the decline of municipalities and that cadre deployment should be abolished.[9]

On 5 December 2020, he was appointed as Shadow Minister for the portfolio, succeeding Haniff Hoosen, in the Shadow Cabinet of John Steenhuisen.[10]

References[]

  1. ^ "Changes to DA Shadow Cabinet".
  2. ^ a b "Blog: Mr Cillier Brink". People's Assembly. 25 May 2020. Retrieved 3 October 2020.
  3. ^ Keppler, Virginia (26 August 2016). "These are Tshwane's new MMCs". The Citizen. Retrieved 3 October 2020.
  4. ^ "Cilliers Brink". People's Assembly. Retrieved 3 October 2020.
  5. ^ Moatshe, Rapula (14 May 2019). "City of Tshwane executive reshuffle ruled out". IOL. Retrieved 24 October 2020.
  6. ^ "SEE: These are the people who will represent you in Parliament, provincial legislatures". News24. 15 May 2019. Retrieved 3 October 2020.
  7. ^ Gerber, Jan (5 June 2019). "Here's the DA's 'shadow cabinet'". News24. Retrieved 3 October 2020.
  8. ^ "announcements, tablings and committee reports - APRAV" (PDF). APRAV. Retrieved 24 October 2020.
  9. ^ "DA slams NDZ's 'toxic' cadre deployment views". The Citizen. 22 June 2020. Retrieved 7 February 2021.
  10. ^ "DA announces new Shadow Cabinet that will bring Real Hope and Real Change". Democratic Alliance. Retrieved 5 December 2020.

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