ANC’s election of Mapisa-Nqakula has disarmed Parliament and accountability

19 August 2021

The ANC’s election of Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula as Speaker of the National Assembly has disarmed Parliament from carrying out its mandate to ensure accountability and transparency.

It is an indictment on the ANC and highlights their determination to render Parliament into a toothless institution.

The DA maintains that Mapisa-Nqakule is unfit for the position of Speaker and that her election makes a complete mockery of Parliament and it’s principles of transparency, accountability and integrity.

What makes matters worse, is that the new Speaker is heading up the very institution which she for years tried to undermine and where serious allegations of misconduct have been levelled against her.

Her election is therefore not ‘democracy at work’ but rather another example of how the ANC’s policy of cadre deployment will ruin yet another democratic institution.

The DA will however continue to fight tooth and nail to ensure that Parliament works for the people of South Africa in spite of the ANC’s attempts to undermine it.

Issued by Natasha Mazzone, Chief Whip of the Official Opposition, 19 August 2021