By Johnathan Paoli
Parliament’s ad hoc committee investigating alleged corruption and political interference in the criminal justice system spent hours on Tuesday, well into the night, deliberating and ultimately demanding that Democratic Alliance (DA) MP Dianne Kohler Barnard recuse herself to “protect the integrity” of the committee.
The demands emanated from allegations made by KwaZulu-Natal police chief Lieutenant-General Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi that Kohler Barnard — a long-serving MP and member of the Joint Standing Committee on Intelligence (JSCI) — had mishandled confidential intelligence information, disclosed sensitive details about Crime Intelligence property acquisitions in press statements and parliamentary questions, and risked compromising covert police operations.
Kohler Barnard was in the committee as an alternative, standing in for Glynnis Breytenbach.
“The member of Parliament that I referred to before went out in the public and said no when I asked this questions there was no Joint Standing Committee of intelligence and the member
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