Multiparty Programme Committee agrees to establish Ad Hoc Committee on Nkandla report, deliberates on Parliament’s involvement in stopping violence against foreign nationals
The National Assembly (NA) Programme Committee at its regular meeting this morning agreed to establish a joint ad hoc committee, comprising members of the NA and the National Council of Provinces (NCOP), to process Police Minister Mr Nathi Nhleko’s report on Nkandla.
NA Speaker, Ms Baleka Mbete said in a statement last week that, because the matter related to a report from the Executive, there had been contact about it with the Leader of Government Business.
The report has not yet been received by Parliament.
The NA Programme Committee also agreed that Members would use the coming week to engage with issues of xenophobia and intolerance in their constituencies. Committee work which cannot be postponed would, however, continue.
Chairperson of the meeting, Speaker Mbete emphasised that Parliament should be visibly involved in efforts to stem the violence.
In addition to constituency work on the issue, the idea of an ad hoc committee to conduct a fact-finding exercise was also mooted.
There would be a joint sitting of the NA and NCOP to debate and celebrate Freedom Day, which marks our first democratic, non-racial election held on 27 April 1994, and it would culminate in another Joint sitting to celebrate Africa Day, which marks the establishment of the Organisation of African Unity on 25 May 1963.
