South Africa’s Commission of Inquiry into State Capture report, whose final part will be submitted to President Cyril Ramaphosa in April, could be in the hands of lawmakers in August this year, APA learnt on Thursday.
Ramaphosa said he wanted to be given ample time to hand over, not only the report, but also to tell parliament what the government is going to do with its recommendations.
The action plan was expected to spell out what the government would do to implement the recommendations of the commission in their entirety.
This emerged during the meeting of the National Assembly Programming Committee on Thursday.
According to the committee, Ramaphosa had requested this extension after a court order granting the Zondo commission another extension in submitting the entire report to the government by the end of April.
Speaker of the National Assembly, Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula, said the committee would refer the matter on whether to establish an Ad Hoc Committee of Parliament in the interim to the Chief Whip’s Forum to decide.
“By the end of August, we shall receive a full programme of action which talks to the implementation of the recommendations of the Zondo Commission Report,” Mapisa-Nqakula said.
She added: “I will request that at the appropriate forum — which will be the Chief Whip’s Forum — and perhaps even the Rules Committee, if there is a need, that we discuss this issue that we are proposing — and not here in the programming committee.”
The president has so far received four-parts of the report on alleged corruption under former president Jacob Zuma administration, with the fourth part of the report, dwelling on Bosasa – the company known now as African Global Operations.
Bosasa was allegedly used as a front company by those in charge to get kickbacks in exchange for lucrative government contracts.
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