MPs clash over UK tour on how to hold president accountable: A parliamentary delegation is scheduled to go to the UK in July on a study tour to benchmark the possibility of setting up a presidential oversight committee.
CONTRAVENING CODE:Anton Scholtz
The study tour was initiated by the assembly’s rules committee after yet another request from opposition parties and a recommendation by the Zondo commission that parliament should establish a portfolio committee that will hold the president to account. “There are many platforms that we can take and do benchmarking in terms of the rules committee than go to a study tour in the UK. Why not do benchmarking with other African countries? Why even go to do a benchmarking?” she asked.
She said in motivating for the study tour, MPs had considered that the matter has been on the agenda of parliament for many years. The UK is also one of very few countries in the world where the prime minister appears before a parliamentary committee.
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