The Chairperson of Parliament’s Impeachment Committee and Rise Mzansi national organiser, Makashule Gana says the terms of reference for the Committee will only be adopted at its next meeting on the 26th of this month.
He says the proceedings of the impeachment committee will be live for the public to watch.
The committee will investigate whether President Cyril Ramaphosa has a case to answer to, regarding the 2020 Phala Phala farm theft.
This follows the Constitutional Court judgment that Parliament acted unlawfully by rejecting the independent panel report and ordered Parliament to establish the Section 89 impeachment committee.
The President has approached the Western Cape High Court for a judicial review.
Gana addressed the media in Johannesburg.
“We will only be able to give the time frames once we have the evidence leaders, once we have the witnesses, once we have agreed in terms of the terms of reference and how we want to interact with witnesses and once we have had a fair analysis of the documents that will be in front of us. So, once we have the witnesses, we’ll give a time frame. At the moment it will be wishful on my side. So, let us allow the committee to have its second meeting where we’ll deal with the terms of reference, where we’ll deal with the process of appointing the evidence leaders.”
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