Former Msunduzi Municipality deputy mayor and controversial ANC politician Mervyn Dirks has been thrust back into parliament.
Dirks, who resigned from the National Assembly amid a fallout with ANC national parliament leaders in January, was this week sworn in as an ANC KwaZulu-Natal member of the provincial legislature .that he was looking forward to making “a meaningful contribution” to the KZN Legislature.
During his tenure as an MP, where he sat on the Standing Committee on Public Accounts , Dirks irked party leaders when he called on Scopa to investigate President Cyril Ramaphosa. According to Dirks’ complaint, Ramaphosa failed to pass on the information to law enforcement agencies as required by law.Scopa resolved not to pursue the matter after Ramaphosa clarified that the information which Dirks had claimed he was in possession of, was in the public domain.
Dirks, who was previously linked to the ANC’s radical economic transformation faction and is an open supporter of former president Jacob Zuma, denied that he was party to factionalism.
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