Pieter van Dalen

Pieter van Dalen
MP
Member of Parliament National Assembly
Leader Mmusi Maimane
Personal details
Born 1966-03-22
Cape Town, South Africa
Nationality South African
Political party Democratic Alliance
Alma mater University of Cape Town
Profession Politician

Pieter van Dalen (born 22 March 1966) is a South African politician in the National Assembly of South Africa with the Democratic Alliance (DA).

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

Personal life

Van Dalen was born in the town of Kuils River in the Western Cape and attended De Kuilen High School[2].

Van Dalen studied at Wits University, and attained a NQF level 7 graduate diploma in Advanced Governance and Leadership in 2013.[3][4]

Before he joined the Democratic Alliance, van Dalen was the managing director of his own company, and was also a reservist for the Fire Brigade and South African Police Service.[5]

Politics

Van Dalen was elected as a City Of Cape Town Councillor in 2006. His priority was to fight copper theft, and to that end he established and chaired the specialized Copper Theft Unit in 2007,[5] which unit was colloquially known as "the copperheads".[6] The endeavour was successful, reducing the City's annual financial losses due to copper theft from R22 million to under R500,000.[6]

Van Dalen also chaired the Investment Committee of the [[Cape Municipal Pension Fund<ref>https://www.capefund.com/</ref>]].[5]

Parliament

Van Dalen exposed the Eskom/BHP Billiton secret electricity pricing deal when he revealed the Eskom dossier in 2008.[7]

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authorities for investigation, and after the secret PriceWaterhouseCooper report was released by him, the contract was withdrawn and it is still the subject of a Public Protector report.[8][9] On 5 December 2014, the Public Protector found her and the DAFF's conduct "improper" and constituting maladministration, and that it had led to "fruitless and wasteful expenditure". The Public Protector's recommendation to the President was to consider disciplinary action against Joematt-Pettersson.[10]

After a 5 year term in Parliament serving on Public Enterprises and Fisheries portfolio committees as the DA Deputy Shadow Minister, in March 2015 he was re-elected to Parliament. He served as the Deputy Shadow Minister of Energy until December 2016.[5] He is now serving as the Deputy Shadow Minister of Agriculture, Forestry & Fisheries[11]

References

  1. ↑ DA public reps on Twitter Archived July 5, 2014, at the Wayback Machine.
  2. ↑ http://www.dekuilen.com/
  3. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on May 7, 2013. Retrieved April 28, 2013.
  4. ↑ https://www.da.org.za/our-people/members-of-parliament/
  5. 1 2 3 4 "Pieter Van Dalen". People's Assembly. Retrieved 2017-05-17.
  6. 1 2 On the streets with the Copperheads
  7. ↑ "BHP Billiton power skeletons rattle again". 17 September 2012. Retrieved 17 June 2016.
  8. ↑ Fisheries stink gets up MP's nose. Mail & Guardian. Retrieved 26 July 2014.
  9. ↑ http://www.pprotect.org/library/investigation_report/Docked%20Vessels%20Final%20Report.pdf
  10. ↑ http://www.bdlive.co.za/business/agriculture/2013/12/05/madonsela-recommends-disciplinary-action-against-joemat-pettersson
  11. ↑ https://www.da.org.za/our-people/members-of-parliament/
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