Pieter van Dalen

Not to be confused with Peter 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 Cape Town 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.[2]

van Dalen is a corruption buster and will attack and expose it wherever it raises its ugly head. He has exposed the Eskom/BHP Billiton secret electricity pricing deal when he revealed the ESKOM dossier in 2008. There was a huge outcry from the general public about the supply of electricity at below cost of generation when South Africa does not even have enough to meet daily demand.[3]

He is currently the DA Deputy Shadow Minister for Agriculture forestry and Fisheries and is the Spokesperson on Fisheries.[1]

He also revealed the attempted corrupt awarding of the R800 million Department of Fisheries vessel management tender to Sekunjalo which has close relations with President 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authorities for investigation and after the secret PriceWaterhouseCooper report was released by him the contract was withdrawn and it is still the subject of a Public Protectors report.[4]

van Dalen has studied at Wits University. He has attained a NQF level 7 graduate diploma in Advanced Governance and Leadership in 2013.[5]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 DA public reps on Twitter
  2. ↑ On the streets with the Copperheads
  3. ↑ BHP Billiton power skeletons rattle again
  4. ↑ Fisheries stink gets up MP's nose. Mail & Guardian. Retrieved 26 July 2014.
  5. ↑

External links

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