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30 September 2013 DA court challenge on Nkandla task team report The Office of the ANC Chief Whip is not surprised by the DA's opportunistic and attention-seeking decision today to approach the courts regarding the task team report into Nkandla security upgrade. The report is currently before parliament's multiparty joint standing committee on intelligence, and the committee is set to report back to parliament at the conclusion of its work. We have become accustomed to the DA's tendency to undermine the constitutional functions of parliament by constantly calling on the judiciary to interfere in matters before the institution. In the last 11 months alone, the DA has already gone to court three times to challenge matters before this parliament. Recently, the Constitutional Court dismissed with costs the DA's application for the court to instruct parliament on how it should decide its programmes. A few weeks ago the party went to court again, this time to ask the judiciary to force a parliamentary committee to include DA's demands into the draft electoral amendment bill. Such continued blatant contempt for the doctrine of separation of powers makes a mockery of the DA's role and its representation in this parliament. By rushing to the courts and abandoning their obligations in the committee, where representatives of various political parties are interrogating the report, the DA is missing a valuable opportunity to be part of the process and satisfy itself of its quality and integrity. The DA, as always, seems to be more interested in headline-grabbing side shows rather than engaging meaningfully in parliament. We are confident that the parliamentary committee's work on this report will not be distracted by the DA's shenanigans. Issued by the Office of the ANC Chief Whip Enquiries: Moloto Mothapo, 082 370 6930 -- -- You are subscribed. This footer can help you. Please POST your comments to [email protected] or reply to this message. You can visit the group WEB SITE at http://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum for different delivery options, pages, files and membership. To UNSUBSCRIBE, please email [email protected] . You don't have to put anything in the "Subject:" field. You don't have to put anything in the message part. All you have to do is to send an e-mail to this address (repeat): [email protected] . --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "YCLSA Discussion Forum" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
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