Veronica van Dyk | |
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Member of the National Assembly of South Africa | |
Assumed office 21 May 2014 | |
Personal details | |
Born | Veronica Van Dyk 1 January 1968 |
Nationality | South African |
Political party | Democratic Alliance |
Occupation | Member of Parliament |
Profession | Politician |
Committees | Portfolio Committee on Sports, Arts and Culture |
Veronica van Dyk (born 1 January 1968) is a South African politician who has served as a Member of the National Assembly since May 2014. A member of the Democratic Alliance, she is party's deputy shadow minister of sports, arts and culture. Van Dyk served as a ward councillor of the Nama Khoi Local Municipality from 2011 to 2014.
Van Dyk founded a monthly newspaper called Namakwa Kletz and presented a local radio show in the Namaqualand. She also headed Daisy Ubuntu Charity, a non-profit organisation. [1]
Van Dyk joined the Democratic Alliance in 2009. She was elected as a ward councillor of the Nama Khoi Local Municipality in the 2011 municipal elections. [1]
Van Dyk was nominated to the National Assembly after the general election on 7 May 2014. She took office as an MP on 21 May 2014. [2] During her first term, she served as a member of the Portfolio Committee on Communications. She was the party's shadow deputy minister of communications. [3]
In May 2019 she was re-elected for a second term. [4] She now serves on the Portfolio Committee on Sports, Arts and Culture. She is also the party's shadow deputy minister for that specific portfolio. [5]