Cecil Burgess (politician)

Cecil Burgess
Cecil Burgess
Member of the National Assembly
	In office; 23 April 2004 – 6 May 2014
Personal details
Citizenship	South Africa
Political party	African National Congress (since 2005); Independent Democrats (until 2005);
Alma mater	University of South Africa

Cecil Valentine Burgess is a South African politician and lawyer who served in the National Assembly from 2004 to 2014. He represented the Independent Democrats (ID) until September 2005, when he crossed the floor to the African National Congress (ANC).

Burgess chaired Parliament's Joint Standing Committee on Intelligence from 2008 to 2014. When he left the National Assembly after the 2014 general election, the ANC nominated him for appointment as Inspector-General of Intelligence. The nomination was fiercely resisted by opposition parties and his nomination was abandoned in 2016 after it repeatedly failed to garner the required two-thirds majority in the house.

Cecil Burgess

Member of the National Assembly
In office 23 April 2004 – 6 May 2014

Personal details
Citizenship	South Africa
Political party	African National Congress (since 2005) Independent Democrats (until 2005)
Alma mater	University of South Africa