The Zondo report meticulously traces the legislature’s internal struggle over its role in any parliamentary investigation into State Capture and the shifting balance of power in the ANC that caused changes in political direction and allowed State ...
to be exact — Chief Justice Raymond Zondo and his team explain how Parliament failed us.— and constitutional — duty of oversight, allowing State Capture to occur, and Zondo suggests the portfolio committee system is to blame.
He also notes the ANC’s then-pending December elective conference in which a new president of the organisation would be elected. Ramaphosa, as the then deputy president of the ANC, was a likely contender, which was “enough for many within the ANC to seek to position themselves favourably on Mr Ramaphosa’s side”.
It was a stalemate, until only months later Letsatsi-Duba was replaced as committee chairperson by Zukiswa Rantho, and in a surprise move the PCPE suddenly announced that it was going to launch an investigation after all. The Zondo report describes this as “a completeRantho told the commission she knew at the time that this “would probably be a career-limiting move”. Indeed later she was removed from the ANC party list in the next election, thus losing her seat in the House.
But by then it had amassed impressive evidence that it handed over to the official independent Zondo Commission, which was starting up at the time, giving it a significant head start – for which the Chief Justice in his report extended his warm appreciation. Zondo stressed the potential conflict for Members of Parliament between the demands of party discipline and the oversight obligations of MPs determined by the Constitution. “Members are required to swear or affirm faithfulness to the Republic and obedience to the Constitution and laws.
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