NCOP committee to oversee North West intervention in terms of the Constitution
The National Council of Provinces (NCOP) has established an ad hoc committee to oversee the national government’s section 100 [of the Constitution] intervention in the North West‚ after the entire provincial government was placed under administration by President Cyril Ramaphosa. The ad hoc committee is comprised of 19 full-time and alternate MPs from the ANC‚ the DA‚ the EFF and the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP). As the majority party in the NCOP, the ANC has been designated 11 MPs on the committee‚ the DA three and the EFF and the IFP two apiece. Veteran ANC MP and the NCOP’s chairman of the select committee on finance, Charl de Beer, has been elected head of the ad hoc committee. De Beer said one of the urgent matters they needed to attend to was to get a full briefing from the Cabinet inter-ministerial committee on the North West led by Minister in the Presidency Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma on their findings into the governance issues in the troubled province. Advocate Modibedi Phindel...
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