ANC’s Lekganyane to lead ad hoc committee probing Mkhwanazi claims
African National Congress MP Soviet Lekganyane will lead Parliament's ad hoc committee investigating allegations of political interference in the policing and justice sectors.
KZN police commissioner Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi has accused police minister Senzo Mchunu and national deputy commissioner Shadrack Sibiya of interfering with police investigations.
The 11-member committee, which was established late last month, met in Parliament on Tuesday to elect its chairperson.
Lekganyane has previously served as an executive council member in Limpopo and provincial secretary of the ANC and special adviser to former Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga in 2022.
He was elected a member of Parliament last year.
" My feeling is that all of us here, and which I will also urge all of you, is that we have been appointed from a position of incompetence and every day when we do our work, let's find a way to do better,” he said.
"Anybody outside looking at us would say we have elected these men and women, but in some way, this is what they have done, and we don't think it represents us as South Africans. So we have a duty here to reignite the confidence of the people of South Africa."
EFF leader Julius Malema was nominated as chairperson but declined.
Lekganyane says the committee must report its findings by the end of October.
“ The confidence of South Africans in Parliament is at 27%, so we have a duty here to raise the flag of the Parliament of the Republic and reignite the confidence of the people of South Africa in Parliament as an institution that can represent them to the best of its abilities.”
