The joint committee on ethics and members’ interests has been requested to investigate possible contraventions, but this will only apply to members who were serving in parliament when the alleged transgressions took place.
Gwede Mantashe and Zizi Kodwa may dodge the bullet since their alleged misdemeanours happened when they were not membersThe final instalment of the state capture inquiry report is yet to be released by inquiry chair and chief justice Raymond Zondo. File photo.Parliament has started to process the state capture inquiry report after it instructed its ethics and members interests committee to look into serving MPs implicated in the report.
The ANC was pushing for parliament to wait for the complete report to be handed to the house by President Cyril Ramaphosa before lifting a finger. Parliament’s legal services department has conducted an analysis of the state capture inquiry reports and has generated a legal opinion proposing a process parliament should follow in dealing with the reports once officially submittedAs the aspects of the report have a direct bearing on parliamentary business, the institution has swiftly initiated a processes to implement its recommendations.
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