EFF MP Hlengiwe Mkhaliphi asked what Mashatile believed would be the long-term effect of the ANC’s use of its majority to “circumvent parliamentary accountability”.
She said that, just as the ANC used its majority to shield then-president Jacob Zuma in the past, it was doing the same with Ramaphosa despite findings by the Zondo commission that parliament was complicit in state capture in its failure to hold the executive to account.
Mashatile responded: “You’ve got it wrong. We are not shielding the president. The president has expressed his commitment to co-operate fully with all investigations. There is no shielding. He called on MPs to be patient and allow the institutions to do their work properly, saying Ramaphosa was co-operating with them and not interfering. “I can assure you the institutions are doing their work without fear or favour,” he said.
“That’s how democracy works, the majority must have its way,” responded Mashatile. “When the ANC believes its course is correct, it will use its majority to push those decisions.
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