Mbete returns state capture report

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- Speaker of the National Assembly Baleka Mbete has released a statement saying she has returned the state capture report to the Public Protector's office.

Earlier today, outgoing Public Protector Thuli Madonsela confirmed that the final report had been handed to Mbete for safekeeping until the urgent applications brought by President Jacob Zuma and Cooperative Governance Minister Des van Rooyen are heard in court.

During Madonsela's final press briefing as Public Protector today, she confirmed that the highly anticipated state capture report was in the hands of Mbete.
Mbete has now released a statement saying, “The Speaker has an obligation in terms of the Rules of the Assembly to table all documents received for the information of Members, in order to ensure that the business of the Assembly is conducted in an open and transparent manner.”

The statement also says, “This report however cannot be handled in the same manner… [and] has now been returned to the Office of the Public Protector.”
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http://ewn.co.za/2016/10/14/Mbete-returns-state-capture-report
 
Ok. So what now? The report obviously contains explosive allegations against Zuma, Des van Rooyen and the Guptas for them to so vehemently oppose the release thereof. With the incoming PP already having indicated that she will not priorities state capture investigation, these guys can now keep this report out of the public domain until after 2019?

The reason given by the Speaker is fluff....why not ask the members to only table the report after the November court case?

The handling of this issue will be a litmus test for the new PP and for democracy.
 
My prediction on this is that the old PP et al win the case 1 November thus there is no interdict but the new PP then has either lost the report or needs to review it.
 
Arzy said:
My prediction on this is that the old PP et al win the case 1 November thus there is no interdict but the new PP then has either lost the report or needs to review it.
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Won't stick, that's why a draft preservation order was given. If she wins the interdict, it must be released in its unaltered form. That's what was agreed to.
 
Mbete has now released a statement saying, “The Speaker has an obligation in terms of the Rules of the Assembly to table all documents received for the information of Members, in order to ensure that the business of the Assembly is conducted in an open and transparent manner.”

The statement also says, “This report however cannot be handled in the same manner… [and] has now been returned to the Office of the Public Protector.”
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What Mbete seems to be saying here is that she can't be trusted to keep the report secret, because all reports handed to her need to be submitted for all members to see. She's probably protecting her office from being attacked by other Zuma supporters trying to get to it.
 
She knows she'd be stuck between a rock and a hard place. The courts would **** her up badly for losing or destroying the report. Zuma would demand that she did it.
 
This report is proving to be a real hot potato!
We will soon know where the new PP stands.Personally not feeling very confident ☹️.
 
It will continue to be passed around like this for the next 10 years; from one office to the other, each arguing over it's contents, slowly leaking tidbits piece by piece until one day, they release the full report and everyone is left thinking "oh wow was that it? But we knew all of that already"

Public conditioning to bad news by drip feeding it over an extended period. They learned this well from their Soviet masters.
 
Mbete would have been legislated to release the document eventually. With it in the hands of the new PP who worked for Zuma's state security, it will never see the light of day unless leaked.
 
State capture report under lock & key in National Assembly

State capture report under lock & key in National Assembly

JOHANNESBURG - The National Assembly says an earlier statement claiming Parliamentary Speaker Baleka Mbete had refused to safekeep the Public Protector's report into allegations of state capture against President Jacob Zuma is false.

The party says its chief whip Jackson Mthembu met with Mbete this morning - who has distanced herself from the report released last night by the Parliamentary Communications Services, allegedly on her behalf.

Mbete claims she did not instruct the department to release the statement, which she says does not represent her views...
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I wonder what happened there.
 
Sinbad said:
She knows she'd be stuck between a rock and a hard place. The courts would **** her up badly for losing or destroying the report. Zuma would demand that she did it.
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This is the likely reason.
 
Sinbad said:
Someone's hastily backtracking...
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It's unusual for communications departments to release statements to the media without being told to do so. If she didn't instruct them, then someone in a high position must have done so.
 
she must hold the report, it is her duty. if not she must be punished for not following rule. dismissed actually.

her not wanting to hold this is proof she is can be compromised and cannot be trusted.


edit: i dont think she never said it, this is backtracking. she saw the fan has been pointed at her..
 
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ɹǝuuᴉM said:
What exactly did you expect? This is Africa. Banana trees grow all over :D
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That would be funny..... if there was something to laugh about.

Zuma uses the SA economy and law like his personal plaything!
 
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