Judges grill parties and Mbete on probe into Zuma's Nkandla conduct
Mbete admits she does have power to set up a multiparty committee to probe Zuma's role in Nkandla scandal
Opposition parties were grilled by the Constitutional Court judges on whether they had exhausted all their options internally to compel Parliament to investigate President Jacob Zuma’s conduct on Nkandla before turning to the court. Speaker Baleka Mbete was also not spared, with suggestions by the court that she was irresponsible and should have been more forthright by alerting parties that a multiparty committee could be set up when the EFF had requested proceedings to hold Zuma to account over the Nkandla matter. The court heard argument in the case brought by the EFF, the United Democratic Movement (UDM), the DA and the Congress of the People (Cope) to deem “Mbete’s inaction” over the Nkandla matter as unconstitutional, to force her to set up a probe to determine if his conduct warranted impeachment. At the last minute on Monday morning, Mbete filed a supplementary affidavit, indicating that a multiparty committee was within her powers to set up — after three letters from the EFF...
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