By Johnathan Paoli and Amy Musgrave
The Economic Freedom Fighters has taken issue with the Portfolio Committee on Higher Education and Training chairperson Tebogo Letsie for his “unparliamentary and unconstitutional conduct” during a heated altercation during a meeting.
According to the EFF, a confrontation erupted when one of its MPs, Sihle Lonzi, raised a question regarding recent appointments to the boards of Sector Education and Training Authorities (SETAs).
Lonzi reportedly asked the Higher Education director-general Nkosinathi Sishi whether he was aware of controversial selections, particularly the appointment of Buyambo Mantashe, son of ANC chairperson and Mineral Resources Minister Gwede Mantashe, as the chairperson of the Manufacturing, Engineering and Related Services SETA.
“This undemocratic act was not only unparliamentary in nature, but a violent suppression of accountability and a direct attack on the political rights of Members of Parliament to exercise oversight over the executive,” the EFF’s statement read.
The EFF claimed Lonzi’s
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