It’s unprecedented and it will set in motion intricate political manoeuvring in Parliament before a session of the House that will make a final decision on establishing the impeachment inquiry into Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane officially a Section 194 inquiry.
The EFF’s support for the Public Protector is on public record and its 44 MPs may well vote against establishing an inquiry into her fitness for office.
The ANC is split along factional lines and for more than a year has procrastinated on making a decision on the Public Protector. Or as ANC Deputy Secretary-General Jessie Duarte put it after the first 2020 ANC parliamentary caucus of its 230 MPs in February of that year, “There is a process in place. The ANC has not discussed where we stand, so we can’t give you an answer either way”.
ANC Deputy Secretary-General Jessie Duarte has apologised to Deputy Chief Justice Raymond Zondo over her opinion piece in which she took aim at the State
The situation around former President Jacob Zuma is expected to reach a climax of sorts this week, as he is due to appear before the Zondo Commission on Monday. Meanwhile, an apology by the ANC’s Deputy Secretary-General Jessie Duarte for her comments last week about the commission is an indi.
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Parliamentary watchdog neutered by unresponsive executive body
‘It is shameful that ministers and their accounting officers cannot deal with corruption’ â former Scopa chair Themba Godi. 00:01
Looks good from the outside, but parliament is dominated by one party and âfacts do not sway many comrades in portfolio committeesâ. Image: Kopano Tlape, GCIS
On Monday (February 1), the Zondo Commission of Inquiry into allegations of state capture heard evidence on parliamentary oversight from two former members of the Standing Committee on Public Accounts (Scopa) â Themba Godi and Natasha Mazzone.
Themba Godi
Themba Godi is a former chair of Scopa and was a member of parliament on behalf of the African Peopleâs Convention from 2005 to 2019. He explained the functions of Scopa, stating that it considers the financial statements of all government bodies, including state-owned entities (SOEs), any audit reports, any report issued