Pieter van Dalen
Pieter van Dalen (born 22 March 1966) is a South African politician in the National Assembly of South Africa with the Democratic Alliance (DA).
Van Dalen was born in the town of Kuils River in the Western Cape and attended De Kuilen High School He is a Democratic Alliance member of the Parliament of South Africa and DA Deputy Shadow Minister of Public Enterprises.[1]
When elected a City Of Capetown Councillor in 2006 he immediately started fighting the crime of Copper-theft and started a crack specialized crime fighting unit which was called the copperheads. He was the chairperson of that unit which was highly successful and brought down the thefts of copper from R22 million to just under R500 000.00. http://www.sadelivery.co.za/files/back_issues/delivery/Edition18/copperheads%202302_2.pdf
Pieter is a corruption buster and will attack and expose it wherever it raises its ugly head. He has exposed the Secret Eskom/BHP Billiton secret electricity pricing deal when he revealed the secret ESKOM dossier or report in 2008. There was a huge outcry from the general public about the supply of electricity at below cost of generation when this when South Africa does not even have enough to meet daily demand. http://www.moneyweb.co.za/moneyweb-soapbox/bhp-billiton-power-skeletons-rattle-again?sn=2009%20Detail
Pieter is currently the DA Deputy Shadow Minister for Agriculture forestry and Fisheries and is the Spokesperson on Fisheries http://www.da.org.za/our_people.htm?action=view-page&category=members-of-parliament&person=6725
He also revealed the attempted corrupt awarding of the R800 million rand Department of Fisheries vessel management tender to Sekunjalo which has close relation with Prez. Jacob Zuma. This tender was awarded to Sekunjalo by the Minister of Agriculture forestry and fisheries by Minister Tina Joemat-Pettersson. After reporting it to the authorities for investigation and after the secret PriceWaterhouseCooper report was released by him the contract was withdrawn and it is still the subject of a Public Protectors report http://mg.co.za/article/2012-03-16-fisheries-stink-gets-up-mps-nose/
Pieter has studied at the http://www.wits.ac.za/?gclid=CNGSgJfK7bYCFXIQtAodYQoAlA He has attained a NQF level 7 graduate diploma in Advanced Governance and Leadership in 2013 http://www.wits.ac.za/academic/clm/certificate%20programmes/16050/advanced_governance_amp;_public_leadership.html
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Pieter is on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/pieter.vandalen.1
Pieter is on Twitter @PietervanDalen https://twitter.com/PietervanDalen
Extended Profile on http://whoswho.co.za/pieter-van-dalen-32334