Sibongiseni Dhlomo

Sibongiseni Dhlomo (born 10 December, 1959) is a South African politician and medical doctor for the African National Congress. Dhlomo is a former deputy minister of health for the Republic of South Africa. Quotes It’s important that as parliamentarians when we make laws, they are influenced by and have been commented on by our citizens that we represent. As parliamentarians, we do not want to assume that our citizens like this, that and the other, especially when this is a new bill that is going to translate into fundamental changes in health. So, it is critical that we get the views of our people and let them comment and guide us on what they want us to put together, collectively. Firstly, it’s not the first time that there are public hearings taking place throughout our country. So, this Parliament has experience of that. With this bill, we might be the first committee of the sixth Parliament doing it, but we borrow from those previous experiences. Secondly, we wrote to particular municipalities saying we want to come, such as the Johannesburg Metro, and that’s the start. You identify areas based on diversity, based on the geographic spread of our population in the country, in the provinces. Thereafter we have engaged on finding venues that are convenient for about four, five to eight hundred people. For now, we have actually chosen specific areas in the country, but we still have to get the municipalities to confirm. I’m glad that for the provinces that we’re already starting with, Mpumalanga and Northern Cape, we have got a lot of support from the municipalities and mayors, who guide us on where they normally have meetings of this size. But over and above that, those venues must still be accessible to our people because you would have a spread of about 70 to 80km around that venue to go and collect people who want to come to those venues for public hearings. External links Category:Living people Category:Politicians from South Africa Category:Physicians from South Africa Category:1959 births