ANC chooses defence of Zuma over state capture probe
21 June 2017
Today the ANC once again made it clear that they are unmoved in their defence of President Jacob Zuma and that, through their majority in Parliament, they will frustrate our efforts to establish an Ad Hoc Committee on State Capture.
We have been left with no doubt that the ANC is committed to defending President Zuma, the Guptas, and their project of state capture.
This follows the cynical ploy by the House Chairperson of Committees, Cedric Frolick, of relegating Parliament’s efforts to investigate state capture to the portfolio committees of Home Affairs, Mineral Resources, Public Enterprises and Transport, only. The ANC has wantonly chosen to ignore the fact that state capture is a broad spectrum attack on our very sovereignty and our democracy, not an anomaly in four departments.
In explaining their objection to the establishment of an ad hoc committee to enquire “into [the] undue influence by certain individuals over the executive in their exercise of executive authority”, the ANC pontificated about the effective role portfolio committees could play in investigating state capture.