National Assembly Speaker Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula has put her foot down: The inquiry into Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane’s fitness for office must complete its work by the end of May.
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The beleaguered Mkhwebane’s term of office ends in October, and at Thursday’s meeting of the National Assembly Programming Committee (NAPC), it became a matter of urgency to select her successor in a truncated parliamentary calendar.
The National Assembly will debate South Africa's failed bid to extradite the Guptas after GOOD MP Brett Herron's request for an urgent debate was accepted.