ANC MP Mervyn Dirks has been suspended with immediate effect by the party after calling on the Standing Committee on Public Accounts (Scopa) to haul President Cyril Ramaphosa over the coals for his remarks in the national executive committee (NEC) on the abuse of public funds.
ANC chief whip Pemmy Majodina is understood to have written to Dirks of the disciplinary charges against him.
The letter was written to Dirks on Thursday.
Dirks had written to Scopa to ask it to bring Ramaphosa before it to answer questions on state funds used for campaigning.
He wrote to Scopa chair Mkhuleko Hlengwa regarding the allegations, which could have resulted in Ramaphosa being brought before the committee.
In his letter to Hlengwa Dirks implies Ramaphosa might have committed perjury when he failed to alert the Zondo commission to his knowledge of allegations of abuse of state funds.
“This statement by the president [in the leaked audio] has far-reaching implications for our fight against corruption and maleficence. In fact, it leaves the president’s own ‘New Dawn’ project in tatters,” he wrote.
“Furthermore, the president appeared before the Zondo commission under oath and withheld this damning information. Does this amount to perjury? The admission by the president of his knowledge of corruption and his refusal to divulge it will definitely make the final state capture report questionable and render it as not worth the paper it is written on,” said Dirks.
- Inside Politics
