Ex-speaker Mbete says she was applying rules by protecting Jacob Zuma and she would have done the same for apartheid president FW de Klerk.
Then-president Jacob Zuma and then-speaker of Parliament Baleka Mbete during the State of the Nation Address on 11 February 2016. Image: GCIS
“Even if the president had been FW de Klerk at the time, I would have taken the same positions because the speaker takes decisions on the basis of rules of Parliament,” she told Mbete said this purported unfair shielding of Zuma was a misconception, created and perpetuated by journalists.Watch former speaker on conversation with ‘SABC News’She said at the time, the move shocked many of her critics, because she was “supposedly the stooge of Jacob Zuma”.
“The Portfolio Committee on Mineral Resources failed to hold an adequate inquiry, initially due to evasive conduct on the part of Minister Zwane… This also raises a concern as to how committed… the ANC’s parliamentary leadership really were to the investigative process,” Zondo said in his report.
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