Newsletter| The labelling of recently appointed heads of parliamentary portfolio committees as “Zuma ministers” is “disingenuous, unfair and unwarranted”, says Bongani Bongo, who was appointed as the new chairperson of the home affairs portfolio committee
The labelling of recently appointed heads of parliamentary portfolio committees as “Zuma ministers” – suggesting that they are not befitting of their new deployments – has been criticised as “disingenuous, unfair and unwarranted”.
And former premier of North West, Supra Mahumapelo, who is also mired in controversy, is now chairperson of the portfolio committee on tourism, while alleged Gupta acolyte Faith Muthambi is another former Cabinet minister is the new chairperson of the committee on cooperative governance and traditional affairs.
Bongo said that most of the MPs being “reduced to just Zuma ministers” had served under various leaders. The subcommittee was looking into claims that Bongo had tried to bribe Ntuthuzelo Vanara, the evidence leader of the parliamentary inquiry into the capture of Eskom, Transnet and Denel.
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