An ad-hoc committee to inquire whether Premier Ebrahim Rasool misled the provincial legislature will be named by Wednesday, Western Cape speaker Shaun Byneveldt said.
Rasool said on December 6 last year that the Auditor General’s office had urged the legislature’s standing committee on public accounts to condone security improvements made to provincial minister of community safety Leonard Ramatlakane’s home.
However, the Auditor General at the time, Imraan Jeewa, has denied making this recommendation.
A March 13 call by the Democratic Alliance for an investigation into the matter was unexpectedly supported by Rasool’s African National Congress, and by other parties in the legislature.
It was reported that the committee would be set up by Thursday last week.
However, Byneveldt told the South African Press Association on Monday that there had never been a firm timeline for when the committee would be established.
He said he expected to finish his consultation with the chief whips of the political parties by Tuesday.
Byneveldt said he expected the committee would be a multiparty body of no more than five members. — Sapa