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Madlanga Commission of Inquiry.
ANC Deputy Secretary-General Nomvula Mokonyane says it is crucial to allow the work of various commissions to proceed without political interference so they can fully uncover the truth behind their respective investigations.
Speaking on the sidelines of the four-day National General Council (NGC) at the Birchwood Hotel in Boksburg, Mokonyane declined to comment on the ongoing proceedings at both the Madlanga Commission of Inquiry and the Nkabinde Inquiry.
The Madlanga Commission is probing allegations that criminal syndicates have infiltrated the country’s justice system.
The Nkabinde Inquiry, meanwhile, is examining the fitness of the NPA’s South Gauteng prosecutions head, Andrew Chauke, to hold office.
According to Mokonyane, the establishment of these inquiries reflects President Cyril Ramaphosa’s commitment to transparency in dealing with serious allegations.
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“The resolve to have these commission is again an issue of the president opting to be transparent and being open to processes leading to him taking a decision. It shows that he believes that he can’t just unilaterally take a decision,” says Mokonyane.
She stresses that the ANC will not comment on developments emerging from these forums until their work is complete.
“We have opted that we will not actually go on unnecessary commentary around these commissions, just as we have done with the Ad Hoc committee and many other commissions,” she says.
“We don’t want to have continuous commentary on it. Once all these processes are done, we will then come back and deal with it. We need objective listening. We need appreciation that until once all processes are done and reached their finality, it is also not fair to go for the African National Congress, but we appreciate that South Africans expect more from the ANC as an organisation hence we said we will have a committee in the NEC that will follow and once all this is concluded we will then be able to make our responses.”
Mokonyane also argues that the ANC is sometimes unfairly criticised when individuals appearing before commissions improperly associate their presence with the party.
“But it is unfortunate that even when somebody comes, the first line, ‘Why I am here. I am here because I have refused to be bullied by the African National Congress’, all of you have forgotten that. And that person is then handed over to the ANC,” she says, referencing former Deputy President Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka’s testimony before the Zondo Commission.
Meanwhile, NPA head Adv Shamila Batohi on Monday admitted before the Nkabinde Inquiry that she did not read the case dockets implicating members of the Cato Manor Unit in serious crimes. She underwent cross-examination regarding her evidence to the commission into suspended Chauke’s fitness to hold office.
Batohi told the inquiry she relied on an internal memo and a report from the KwaZulu-Natal Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) when deciding to drop racketeering charges against Major General Johan Booysen and the unit.
