ANC MPs backtrack, pull plug on Public Protector inquiry
25 October 2017
Cape Town - An inquiry into Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane will now not go ahead, after African National Congress MPs in the Portfolio Committee on Justice and Correctional Services shut down the process on Wednesday.
From the beginning of the proceedings, MPs seemed to be on different pages after ANC MPs claimed they had not received the requisite documents that all other MPs had received.
Then, the majority ANC caucus disagreed with all the opposition MPs that they had agreed, on October 10, to hold an inquiry into Mkhwebane's conduct at a committee meeting.
ANC MP Madipoane Mothapo said they had only agreed to "look into the matter" at portfolio committee level. Her colleague Loyiso Mpumlwana said they had to still decide if there "was a need" for an inquiry.