Brandon Topham
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Brandon Topham | |
|---|---|
| Deputy Shadow Minister of the Auditor General | |
| Assumed office October 2015 | |
| Leader | Mmusi Maimane |
| Deputy Shadow Minister of Appropriations | |
| Member of Parliament for Midrand, Gauteng | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | June 7, 1971 Pretoria, South Africa |
| Party | Democratic Alliance |
| Alma mater | University of South Africa |
| Occupation | Member of Parliament |
| Profession | Politician, Community Leader, Businessman |
Brandon Rodney Topham (born Pretoria, 7 June 1971) is a South African politician, community leader and businessman.[1] He is also a South African Freemason[2]
Brandon Topham has served on the boards of a wide variety of businesses, often as Secretary, CFO, Financial Director or Non Executive Director. These companies include 1time Airline, Ecsponent Limited, SEESA (Pty) Ltd, Telemasters Holdings Limited and the Professional Provident Society (PPS).[3][4]
Education
Political life
Topham became interested in politics at the age of 16 when he witnessed the unfairness of apartheid. He avoided compulsory military service when he went to university.[7]
As a long-standing member of the Democratic Alliance, South Africa's main opposition party, he was chosen to be the DA's candidate for mayor of the City of Tshwane in 2011.[8] The governing ANC retained the metro, however. Topham thereafter led the DA opposition in the Tshwane council.
After standing unsuccessfully to be the party's mayoral candidate again in 2016, Topham instead became a Member of the South African Parliament for the DA and served as Deputy Shadow Minister of The Auditor General, and The Deputy Shadow Minister of Appropriations.
In October 2016 Topham criticised Minister of Finance Malusi Gigaba and suggested that there is more to the South African Revenue Service's collection shortfall of R50.8 Billion and that "There may be a rolling of payment and collection. I suggest you do a performance appraisal for senior SARS officials and see if they’ve reported truthfully."[9]
In 2018, Topham resigned from parliament.