Parly’s Ad Hoc Committee to send consolidated questions to Ramaphosa

Parliament’s Ad Hoc Committee, looking into concerns of national security, will send its consolidated list of more than 100 questions to President Cyril Ramaphosa by close of business on Wednesday.

Parties represented in the committee will have an opportunity to review the consolidated list and submit their input before the deadline.

Among others, the written questions relate to the extent of President Ramaphosa’s knowledge of the disbandment of the Political Killings Task Team.

Parliament’s legal team has advised that the questions must be sent off this week to give the President at least a week to respond.

The committee has a deadline of the end of next month.

Committee Chairperson Soviet Lekganyane has urged MPs to submit any changes to the list of questions on time.

“We must check those questions and check if we are happy by Wednesday close of business, we must’ve gotten responses by members, if not by then, we will send off those questions to the office of the President.”

The committee has also received several correspondence from among others Anglo American Executive, Themba Mkhwanazi, as well as media publications, Daily Maverick and Media24 requesting evidence before it be dismissed or challenged.

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During the public hearings of the committee, Pheladi Matjaola accused Mkhwanazi, as her former employer, of having such influence over police that her complaints of cybercrime had gone uninvestigated.

Mkhwanazi, via his lawyers, has denied this. Daily Maverick and Media24 have requested the committee to interrogate former acting Police Commissioner General Kgomotso Phahlane’s claims that their journalists, associate editor, Marianne Thamm and Karyn Maughn – were at a braai with forensic investigator, Paul O’Sullivan.

Lekganyane has advised aggrieved parties to explore options available in the country’s criminal justice system.

“ It will be very, very preposterous for us that we should be found every week writing letters to institutions, to citizens to say, don’t worry where you are sitting, the evidence that has been presented about you here is unsubstantiated and we will not even consider, it’s like we must commit ourselves even before we consider a report that no, don’t worry, Mr. there is nothing about you. We can’t do those things.”