Benedicta van Minnen

South African politician

Born (1970-12-10) 10 December 1970 (age 55)

OccupationPolitician

Benedicta van Minnen MPP

Member of the Western Cape Provincial Parliament
Incumbent
Assumed office 13 June 2024
Member of the National Assembly of South Africa
In office 22 May 2019 – 28 May 2024

Personal details
Born	(1970-12-10) 10 December 1970 (age 55)
Party	Democratic Alliance
Alma mater	University of Cape Town
Occupation	Politician

Benedicta Maria van Minnen (born 10 December 1970) is a South African politician and a member of the Democratic Alliance. She has been a member of the Western Cape Provincial Parliament. Previously, she served as a councillor in the City of Cape Town and as a Member of the National Assembly of South Africa.

Van Minnen studied at the University of Cape Town. In 1991, she was elected to the university's Student Representative Council (SRC).^[1]

Political career

A member of the Democratic Alliance, she was first elected as the ward councillor for ward 15 in the City of Cape Town in the 2011 municipal election.^[1]

Mayoral Committee Member for Health, Lungiswa James, was elected to the National Assembly at the 2014 general election, which caused the position to become vacant. Consequently, mayor Patricia de Lille appointed Van Minnen to the post.^[2] De Lille moved her to the housing portfolio in January 2015.^[3] Van Minnen was elected as a PR councillor in the August 2016 municipal election.^[1] De Lille kept her in the mayoral committee until January 2017.^[4]^[5]

Prior to the 8 May 2019 general election, Van Minnen was ranked second on the DA's Western Cape list of candidates for the National Assembly.^[6] She was nominated to Parliament after the election,^[7] and was sworn in on 22 May 2019.^[8] On 5 June 2019, DA parliamentary leader Mmusi Maimane appointed her as the party's deputy spokesperson on the Standing Committee on Public Accounts.^[9] She became a member of the committee on 27 June 2019.^[10]

Van Minnen became an alternate member of the Committee for Section 194 Enquiry on 21 June 2021.^[11]

Van Minnen was elected to the Western Cape Provincial Parliament in the 2024 Western Cape provincial election.^[12]

References

1 2 3 Macfarlane, Norman (20 July 2016). "Spotlight on: Benedicta van Minnen". Bolander Lifestyle. Archived from the original on 3 December 2020. Retrieved 5 November 2020.
↑ Lewis, Anel (19 May 2014). "Reshuffle best for Cape Town: de Lille". IOL. Cape Town. Retrieved 5 November 2020.
↑ De Lille, Patricia (26 January 2015). "Benedicta Van Minnen new Mayco member for housing - Patricia de Lille". Politicsweb. Retrieved 5 November 2020.
↑ Evans, Jenni (16 January 2017). "De Lille to announce new mayoral committee for Cape Town". News24. Retrieved 5 November 2020.
↑ Evans, Jenni (16 January 2017). "De Lille shakes up Cape Town mayoral committee". News24. Retrieved 5 November 2020.
↑ "Democratic Alliance (DA) Candidates for the 2019 national election". People's Assembly. Retrieved 5 November 2020.
↑ "SEE: These are the people who will represent you in Parliament, provincial legislatures". News24. 15 May 2019. Retrieved 5 November 2020.
↑ "National Assembly Member (As on 22 May 2019)" (PDF). Parliamentary Monitoring Group. Retrieved 6 November 2020.
↑ Head, Tom (5 June 2019). "DA's Shadow Cabinet: Dependables return, with a small hint of controversy". The South Africa. Retrieved 5 November 2020.
↑ "announcements, tablings and committee reports - APRAV" (PDF). APRAV. Archived from the original (PDF) on 5 July 2022. Retrieved 5 November 2020.
↑ "Announcements, tablings and committee reports" (PDF). Parliament of South Africa. 21 June 2021. Archived (PDF) from the original on 20 July 2021. Retrieved 20 July 2021.
↑ Charles, Marvin. "Western Cape legislature to usher in new faces in major shake-up". News24. Retrieved 14 June 2024.

External links

National Assembly biography
People's Assembly biography

v t e Members of the Western Cape Provincial Parliament
Democratic Alliance	Allen Baartman Booysen Bosman Bredell Bryant Johnson Philander Londt Mackenzie Marais Masipa Maynier Mbombo Meyer Mitchell Sileku Simmers Van Minnen Van Wyk Walters Wenger Wessels Winde
African National Congress	Bans Kamfer Lekker Ngqentsu Nkondlo Sayed Stoffel Windvogel
Patriotic Alliance	Constable Petrus Stephens
Economic Freedom Fighters	Cassiem Lithakong
National Coloured Congress	Michels
Freedom Front Plus	Marais
Al Jama-ah	Brinkhuis
African Christian Democratic Party	Christians
Good	Herron

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