PHUTI MOSOMANE
EFF Deputy President and Chief Whip Floyd Shivambu has requested the National Assembly Speaker Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula to suspend Richard Dyantyi and the ANC Chief Pemmy Majodina following allegations of bribery.
The MPs are alleged to have solicited a bribe from the Public Protector Advocate Mkhwebane, through her husband David Skosana.
A case has since been lodged with the South African Police Services (SAPS) and “there is prima facie evidence to support these claims, including verifiable WhatsApp communications between Skosana and Joemat-Peterson,” Shivambu said in a letter.
“It has come to our attention that the Chairperson of the Committee on Section 194 Enquiry, Richard Dyantyi, member of the Committee, Tina Joemat-Peterson, and the Chief Whip of the Majority Party, Pemmy Majodina, have been implicated in serious allegations of impropriety.”
Shivambu also said the allegations are of a nature that threatens to severely undermine the credibility of Parliament and undermine
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