Maite Nkoana-Mashabane called out for not appearing in Parliament for a year
The International Relations Minister is in Vietnam instead of Parliament, accounting for the Grace Mugabe debacle, as promised
ANC chief whip Jackson Mthembu wants Parliament to tighten its rules to clamp down on Cabinet ministers who keep snubbing question-and-answer sessions.Speaking on Thursday morning during a meeting of the National Assembly’s programming committee‚ Mthembu said it was "regrettable" that some ministers regarded themselves as "superior" to the oversight authority of Parliament.Mthembu said some ministers had developed a trend of not taking parliamentary question time. He made the remarks after DA chief whip John Steenhuisen complained that International Relations Minister, Maite Nkoana-Mashabane, would not be in chamber on Thursday afternoon to respond to questions regarding the Grace Mugabe diplomatic immunity debacle.Nkoana-Mashabane is currently on a working visit to Vietnam; Steenhuisen said she has not taken oral questions from MPs for a year now."On the issues raised relating to non-appearance on members of the executive to answer questions‚ in this instance, the Minister of Inter...
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