He said there had been informal discussions with other political parties in parliament to oppose the election of the ANC candidates.
He said the stance would be an important line in the sand for good people in the ANC who knew these candidates were compromised as they knew the potential they had to do tremendous damage to parliament's credibility and the ability of committees to do their job as envisaged. "I would hope that if they are not prepared to do the right thing by staying away, or abstaining or in the unlikely event voting with the opposition in support of the best interest of parliament, their names will be recorded as having backed these chairpersons of portfolio committees and they will be complicit in placing these compromised individuals in these positions."
If all fails on Tuesday, the DA said when state capture and other controversies were placed before the committees in question, it would table a motion for the compromised chairpersons to recuse themselves from committee meetings due to a conflict of interest. The ANC bowed to pressure from lobby group Equal Education last week and dumped Zukisa Faku as its nominee to chair the basic education committee. Faku was convicted of theft and fraud and sentenced to three years' house arrest by the East London Magistrate's Court in 2016. She is appealing the verdict.
Name them and shame them. The more they squirm the better.
Why anc does not put people who are not with scandals as the are many good people in it?
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