Mietha Coetzee-Kasper
Mietha Coetzee-Kasper | |
|---|---|
| Member of the National Assembly | |
| In office May 1994 – April 2004 | |
| Constituency | Free State |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 12 February 1953 |
| Citizenship | South Africa |
| Political party | African National Congress |
Mietha Patricia Coetzee-Kasper (born 12 February 1953), also known as Patricia Coetsee, is a South African politician who represented the African National Congress (ANC) in the National Assembly from 1994 to 2004. She served the Free State constituency.
Legislative career
[edit]Coetzee-Kasper was born on 12 February 1953.[1] In South Africa's first post-apartheid elections in 1994, she was elected to represent the ANC in the National Assembly, the lower house of the new South African Parliament.[2] She was elected to a second term in 1999 and served the Free State constituency,[1] manning the ANC's constituency office in Meloding.[3]
In 2006, after she had left Parliament, Coetzee-Kasper was questioned in a liquidation inquiry arising from the Travelgate scandal, which concerned the abuse of parliamentary travel vouchers by MPs. Liquidators alleged that Coetzee-Kasper's travel vouchers had been used to pay for air tickets worth R70,940; Parliament had apparently paid for the tickets but they had not been used and had been refunded to the travel agency.[4] Coetzee-Kasper said that she did not know what had happened to the money involved.[5]
References
[edit]- ^ a b "General Notice: Notice 1319 of 1999 – Electoral Commission: Representatives Elected to the Various Legislatures" (PDF). Government Gazette of South Africa. Vol. 408, no. 20203. Pretoria, South Africa: Government of South Africa. 11 June 1999. Retrieved 26 March 2021.
- ^ South Africa: Campaign and Election Report April 26–29, 1994. International Republican Institute. 1994. Retrieved 13 April 2023 – via Yumpu.
- ^ "Servcon Housing Solutions Report to Stakeholders". Parliamentary Monitoring Group. 31 March 2002. Retrieved 28 April 2023.
- ^ "Travel scam: Marshoff in court". News24. 23 May 2006. Retrieved 28 April 2023.
- ^ "Marshoff appears in Travelgate enquiry". IOL. 23 May 2006. Retrieved 28 April 2023.