Mildred Oliphant Biography
Mildred Oliphant is a South African politician and the Minister of Labour. Prior to this, she is the Provincial Treasurer of the ANC Women’s League.
Mildred Oliphant Age – How Old Is Mildred Oliphant?
She was born as Nelisiwe Mildred Oliphant in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Further information regarding her exact date of birth is currently under review and will be updated soon.
Mildred Oliphant Height
There is no provided information regarding Mildred’s height. However, this information is currently under review and will be updated soon.
Mildred Oliphant Background –
Mildred Oliphant Education
Oliphant, citing her educational background, she has a Certificate in Macroeconomics and a Certificate in Project Management. However, there is no provided information regarding her family, parents, or siblings since she has not yet disclosed it to the public.
Nevertheless, this information is currently under review and will be updated soon.
Mildred Oliphant Contact Details
- Tel: 082 887 4545/ 021 466 7160/ 012 392 9620
- Party: African National Congress (ANC)
- Private Bag X499, PRETORIA, 0001
-215 Laboria House, Cnr Francis Baard and Paul Kruger Streets, PRETORIA
-012 392 9620
-Fax: 012 320 1942
or
-Private Bag X9090, CAPE TOWN, 8000
-120 Plein Street, Floor 12 Room 1205, CAPE TOWN
-021 466 7160
-Fax: 021 462 2832
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Mildred Oliphant Family
There is no provided information regarding Mildred’s family since she hasn’t disclosed it to the public yet. However, this information is currently under review and will be updated soon.
Mildred Oliphant Husband –
Mildred Oliphant Husband’s Name
Mildred was once married to the late Richard Oliphant. Together they shared four children; Delores Oliphant Van Arsdale and three other siblings whose names are not yet disclosed to the public.
Prior to this, Oliphant got married to Mathews, with whom she was spotted leaving the Phesheya primary school.
In addition, Her third husband was an actor named Donald Stewart.
Mildred Oliphant Domestic Workers
Oliphant is set to have a dialogue with Hundreds of Domestic Workers in Limpopo so as they can benefit immensely.
them, during an Imbizo, to be held in Polokwane later this month.
Most notably, the Pretoria high court passed on a request announcing the avoidance of local laborers from the Compensation for Occupational Injuries and Diseases Act (COIDA) is unlawful.
Residential laborers have been avoided from the Act — which repays representatives, or their survivors, for business-related wounds, sicknesses or passing — since it was authorized in 1993. As indicated by Statistics South Africa’s quarterly work-study for the initial three months of 2019, there were more than one million residential laborers in the nation.
The issue was brought to the court in 2016 by Sylvia Mahlangu, the enduring girl of a local specialist, Maria, who passed on at her manager’s home in Pretoria while she was working.
In a sworn statement to the court, Mahlangu said her mom was washing the top windows outside a room situated by the pool when she slipped from the progression stepping stool on which she was standing and fell into the pool.
As indicated by Mahlangu, her mom was just acquiring R2 500 per month at the hour of her demise. Her mom’s managers supposedly gave the expired’s family under R5 000 after her passing.
Mahlangu said she moved toward the division of work to enquire about remuneration for her mom’s passing, which left her and her child “monetarily penniless”.
In any case, Mahlangu was informed that she couldn’t get pay because of her mom’s demise.
In October a year ago, Labor Minister Mildred Oliphant distributed the proposed revisions to COIDA to cover residential specialists.
In an answering sworn statement to the Pretoria high court, the work division’s pay magistrate, Vuyo Mafata, said the purpose behind the deferral in stretching out inclusion to household laborers by COIDA was to give the office “a chance to build up its institutional ability to control” such inclusion.
Mildred Oliphant Email – Mildred Oliphant Email Address
Email: lerato.mashamba@labour.gov.za.
Mildred Oliphant Political Positions
- November 2010 – Present: Minister of Labour.
- 2008 – Present: Provincial Treasurer, ANC Women’s League.
- Chairperson of Cosatu’s Women’s Forum.
- Member of KwaZulu-Natal Provincial Working Committee
- 2004 – 2009: House Chairperson of the National Council of Provinces.
- 1994 – 1999: Chairperson of the National Council of Provinces.
- 1994 – Present: Member of Parliament, African National Congress.
Mildred Oliphant Membership
- Chairperson of Public Services Committee.
- Chairperson of Land and Environmental Affairs Committee.
- Chairperson of Joint Rules Committee.
- Chairperson of Joint Programme and Joint Ethics Committee.
- Chairperson of Members Interest Committee.
- Member of KwaZulu-Natal Provincial Legislature
- Member and Convener of Health Study Group at KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) Legislature
- Member of the National Council of Provinces (NCOP) and provincial Whip.
- Regional Secretary of ANC North Coast region.
Mildred Oliphant Resigns
Oliphant explained that she resigned as a Member of Parliament, partly to avoid losing benefits at a certain salary level.
News24 earlier reported that Oliphant was the latest in a string of resignations to hit the National Assembly. She joins a list of former ministers who resigned after they were left out of President Cyril Ramaphosa’s recently formed Cabinet.
Speaking to PowerFM, Oliphant said: “What happens when you are deployed, whether as a Member of Parliament or as a minister, it’s not lifetime deployment. So you are deployed for a certain term, it will be up to the leadership that will come in at that particular time to say whether you are further reappointed as the minister.”
Asked why she resigned, Oliphant said that “unfortunately, the situation when it comes to the calculation of benefits for members is based on the last salary that you’ve been receiving…
News24 previously reported on the benefits former ministers stand to lose if they continue to serve as ordinary MPs.
“I know that maybe the public can say, but why should I consider taking a package rather than continuing to serve? The public must also understand, we also have a responsibility for our family and if you look at the benefits, if I had to stay in Parliament, looking at my last salary, I would be forfeiting around 50 to 55 percent of the benefits.”
She also said that the second reason was that a lot of experienced former ministers could be deployed elsewhere, but that their parliamentary funds couldn’t be transferred to a new fund, as is the case with some corporate pensions.
“Immediately, when you are deployed outside of Parliament then you won’t be able to contribute to the same fund and also, you will be out of the parliamentary system.
“I think the challenge here is the way the benefits are calculated… if your benefits are not going to be affected when you have been deployed, whether in the executive or as a chief whip or as speaker, then everybody can remain there because there would be no need for you to leave,” Oliphant added.
Oliphant acknowledged that when her party deployed members, it was for a five-year term and it was not obligated thereafter to reappoint a member in a given position.
Reflecting on her tenure as labor minister, Oliphant said it was an honor to finish her term. She had worked well under both former president Jacob Zuma and Ramaphosa.
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