This became clear at the meeting of the National Assembly's rules committee on Friday, which met to discuss the implications of last month's Western Cape High Court ruling that found in favour of the embattled Mkhwebane...
The section 194 committee had already been instituted by parliament and was ready to start proceedings against Mkhwebane until the high court threw a spanner in the works.
Majodina also argued that the high court judgment also violated the constitutionally enshrined principle of the separation of powers, in that it dictated to parliament how to handle its internal arrangements. However, Corné Mulder from the FF Plus held a different view, saying a pending court decision had never stopped parliament from continuing with its own affairs as an independent arm of state.
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