Hildegard Sonja Boshoff is a South African politician who has served as a permanent delegate to the National Council of Provinces from Mpumalanga twice, from 2013 to 2014 and again since 2019.
13 Facts About Sonja Boshoff
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Sonja Boshoff served as a member of the National Assembly from 2014 to 2019.
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Sonja Boshoff was elected to the Thaba Chweu Local Municipality council in the 2006 municipal elections as a DA councillor.
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Sonja Boshoff served as chief whip of the DA caucus and as constituency chair during her time on the council.
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Sonja Boshoff was elected deputy provincial chairperson of the DA at the party's 2011 provincial congress.
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In December 2013, Sonja Boshoff became the DA member of the Mpumalanga provincial delegation to the National Council of Provinces, the upper house of the South African parliament, following Velly Manzini's expulsion from the DA for starting a new political party.
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Sonja Boshoff stood in the 2014 national and provincial elections as a DA parliamentary candidate for the National Assembly, the lower house of parliament, and was elected as the DA retained its position as official opposition to the governing African National Congress.
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In 2015, Sonja Boshoff was elected deputy DA provincial leader to newly elected provincial leader James Masango.
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Sonja Boshoff served in the position until the 2018 provincial congress when Trudie Grove-Morgan was elected to succeed her.
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In 2017, Sonja Boshoff expressed serious concern over the amount of the disabled children waiting to be placed in special schools.
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Sonja Boshoff was sceptical over the Department of Basic Education's estimate of 11,000 learners waiting to be placed, saying that the previous figure was over 300,000.
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In January 2019, Sonja Boshoff welcomed the South African Council for Educators' decision to make it a requirement for teachers applying for registration to provide a valid police clearance certificate, and called for current teachers to be subjected to a similar process.
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Sonja Boshoff was ranked low on the DA's candidate lists for the 2019 general election, therefore she was not re-elected to the National Assembly at the election.