‘Sympathetic’ Baleka Mbete considers resources for state capture inquiry
National Assembly Speaker Baleka Mbete responded positively on Tuesday to the request for resources to assist Parliament’s public enterprises portfolio committee to undertake an inquiry into state capture at Eskom, Denel and Transnet. A delegation of the committee, led by chairwoman Zukiswa Rantho, met Mbete and House of Assembly chairman Cedric Frolick to ask for resources after it appeared from a presentation by Parliament’s legal services last week that no financial resources were available for the committee to employ an external evidence leader. MPs from across the political spectrum were outraged by what appeared to be an attempt to subvert the committee’s work and decided to send a team to discuss resources with Mbete. About 27 witnesses are due to be called before the inquiry and there is a mass of documentation that an evidence leader would have to plough through in preparation of the inquiry. The evidence leader in the inquiry into the SABC by an ad hoc committee was advoca...
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