MP Corner

Here is interview People's Assembly conducted with Ms Beauty Dlulane (ANC MP). You can view the full interview on the website here: http://www.pa.org.za/blog/ms-beauty-dlulane-anc

What is your impression of the Fifth Parliament? This is the first time I have experienced such ill-discipline and hooliganism in the parliamentary chamber. It gets so bad that it affects my health physically. Worryingly is that most of the members of the EFF who have brought ill-discipline started politics in the ranks of the ANC and they were not so mischievous then. None of that mischief can ever be attributed to the ANC as learning that takes place within the ANC would ever produce such ill-discipline. At committee level, work gets achieved as all political parties participate robustly.

What constituency area have you been assigned to you by your party? What is most interesting about your constituency work so far? Originally, since the beginning of the Fifth Parliament I was deployed to the Ashton and Worcester constituencies of the Cape Winelands however; since late 2015 the ANC redeployed me back to Mthatha regional office under the OR Tambo district in the Eastern Cape.

I engage rural women on their struggles as women because during my tenure as chairperson of the Multi-Party Women’s Caucus, I and the leadership of the ANC in the Eastern Cape managed to address the challenge of "ukuthwala” (forced marriage of young girls) where at one point we managed to return young girls who had been taken from Flagstaff.

What are you most passionate about? Though I am new to that regional office, what I have already gotten involved in is mediating and being the bridge between the youth and traditional leaders in the region as this has been a consistently thorny issue where politics intersect with traditional authority.