Parliament committee meeting cancelled after Bathabile Dlamini no-show
2 May 2017
Cape Town – Parliament's select committee on social services had to cancel its meeting on the department of social development's upcoming budget vote after both the minister and deputy minister failed to attend.
Committee chairperson Landulile Dlamini expressed her dissatisfaction that Minister Bathabile Dlamini and her deputy skipped yet another meeting with NCOP MPs on Tuesday, which was also meant to discuss its annual plan.
"When this saga was in the news, we said we would wait until this meeting to raise them," she said speaking on the social grants debacle.
"The issues we want to raise, we have to have a minister and deputy minister [present]."