Rise Mzansi’s Makashule Gana says chairing the impeachment process comes with huge responsibilities, especially ensuring that the process is fair to the members of the committee and the President.
This follows his election to chair Parliament’s Impeachment Committee, which will consider allegations against President Cyril Ramaphosa, linked to his Phala Phala farm.
Gana stated that it is important that the chairperson did not come from the ANC party, to ensure public trust in the process, mainly because the impeachment also affects some of the executive members.
He won the vote against United Africans Transformation’s Wonderboy Mahlatsi by 19 votes to 12.
Gana says “it’s a very important role, a role with a lot of responsibilities, both in ensuring that the process is fair, fair to all of the people who are participating, fair to the president because in this particular instance, the president that’s facing an impeachment, but also adherence to the constitution, adherence to the rules of the National Assembly, and ensuring that all the voices in the room of the political parties are heard and they participate fully, and that the conversations themselves and the interactions just go on in an orderly way and that’s what I want to try to do to ensure that all members that are members of this committee, all 30 members, because now I’m the chairperson, so there’ll be 30 members that are participating, they get a fair hearing, they get to ask their questions, they get to interact with the evidence leaders and everyone that’s involved”
Impeachment Committee on the Section 89 Enquiry
