Parliament owes South Africa an apology on state capture — Modise - The Mail & Guardian

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Speaker Thandi Modise told the Zondo commission it was regrettable parliament woke up to the reality of state capture only belatedly, but struggled to explain why the legislature blinked when scandals embroiling ministers and the Guptas broke.

“This is not an instance of speculation and rumours. This is your own senior member making an allegation like this, and he was not speaking alone — Minister Hogan spoke out, Ms Mentor spoke out, and others,” Freund said.

“It would have been important for the committee chairpersons, unprompted, to have run using the powers that they have to investigate this matter and to put reports in the house,” Modise said. “Maybe if parliament had acted a year earlier or more than that, but at the latest a year earlier, as soon as possible after March 2016; maybe certain things which happened after, which are detrimental to the country, in terms of what the commission has heard, might not have happened,” Zondo said. “One can just say that parliament awoke. Now we know that we must not allow things to fester,” she said.

Modise said she hoped that MPs would feel empowered to follow their conscience without fear or favour. She added that, with hindsight, she would adopt the same approach today, out of loyalty to the party.Mantashe returned to the witness stand on Monday evening and, like Modise, resisted a suggestion by Freund that parliament needed a portfolio committee to oversee the president of the country.

 

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More proof that ANCisTrash

It’s even more regrettable that she starved hundreds of farm animals to death and has so far got off Scott free 🤬🤬🤬

Yea right, she felt feathers for the animals that died on her farm. She feels feathers for the peoe of SA that are suffering from the nepotism

ANC members will never tell us the truth most of them r crooks

Parliament and the custodians of “good governance”failed us. They were too busy with a “feeding” frenzy.

And they are still blinking...covering...lying..stealing..threatening with the ANC leading from the front

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Owes WMC apology not not South Africans

That parliament is sleeping worse now they are trying to remove head of chapters 9 institution . They are protecting the most corrupt president ever

...because she’s just another lying, thieving anc comrade

The entire MYANC owes all South Africans an apology for the thieving and mal administration of this beautiful country 🇿🇦

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