CAPE TOWN - Parliament said the Portfolio Committee on Justice and Correctional Services was only expected to sit for the first time early next month when it would be seized with a new request from th
e Democratic Alliance that Parliament initiates proceedings aimed at removing Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane from office.
Committees set up under the sixth Parliament were only due to start meeting and electing their chairpersons during the first week of July.It comes after the Gauteng High Court last month found Mkhwebane’s report on the Gupta-linked Estina dairy farm project unconstitutional and set it aside on the basis that she failed in her duties to investigate and report on it.
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