LETTER: Keep the cadres out
Parliamentary committees will be dysfunctional if comrades are appointed to protect their friends
Although the DA’s incompetence complaint against the public protector has been referred by the speaker of parliament to the yet-to-be-established justice portfolio committee, a potentially more serious complaint languishes in limbo. Accountability Now has evidence, in writing, that the public protector has dealt dishonestly with it.
At the third time of asking, the registrar of the speaker suggests that waiting until next month for the finalisation of the appointment of the committee is the way to go. Why this should be so is not clear — all the more so because Accountability Now has also suggested to the speaker that an opposition MP should act as chair of the committee, as is done with the standing committee on public accounts...
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