Werner Horn

Werner Horn (South African politician) Werner Horn (born 12 May, 1970) is a South African lawyer and politician who has been one of three House Chairpersons in the National Assembly of South Africa since July 2024. He has served as a Member of Parliament since May 2014 and before that, he was a councillor of the Mangaung Metropolitan Municipality between 2006 and 2014. Horn is a member of the Democratic Alliance. Quotes In 2014 I applied to come to Parliament as a national representative of the DA. The selection process was quite rigorous as there is an application form and other probing processes where you have to declare everything including things that could embarrass the party. Because the process is multifaceted, there are online tests which have to be completed within an allocated time apart from the two sets of interviews which one must undergo. The first is the Electoral College which is a body made up of ordinary card carrying members of the DA who evaluated whether you possibly have the potential to be a public representative in your chosen area. If you succeed the Electoral College you go for a selection panel interview which is more intense. You have to make another semi-unprepared speech on a topic related to the public office you would be possibly elected to in the DA. A ranking of candidates then follows thereafter where the Provincial Executive Committee (PEC) and the Federal Executive Council (FEC) take the final decision. I became involved with the DA from as far back as 2005. In 2006 I was elected a ward councillor in Mangaung, Bloemfontein in the Free State. I first served in the infrastructure portfolio committee in the municipal council and in 2009 I was elected caucus leader of the DA in the Mangaung Municipality. That meant I served in some of the section 79 committees, including rules and the remuneration portfolios of Council. In the 2011 local government elections I was elected as a proportional representative (PR) for the DA. On Mondays I am in my constituency where the political calendar will determine the matters we will be focusing on. Typically I will have one or two appointments with either constituents or meetings with ward and PR councillors on a range of issues from campaigns to community matters depending on whether it is election season or not. I fly down to Cape Town on Monday evenings so that Tuesday and Wednesday mornings I sit in the Justice and Correction Services portfolio committee which is fairly busy because of the reportees we oversee. In the afternoons from Tuesday to Thursday there are plenary sittings and possibly sometimes our committee meets on Friday morning. When that does not happen I travel back to Bloemfontein early Friday. External links Werner Horn (South African politician) Category:Living people Category:Lawyers from South Africa Category:Politicians from South Africa Category:1970 births