Op-ed: How South Africa can reform parliament to be open, responsive, and transparent

The problem with Parliament’s failure to exercise effective oversight over the executive was clearly exposed by former Speaker Baleka Mbete’s dismal performance in her Al-Jazeera interview last week. Mbete has clearly not recovered from the myopia inflicted on the ANC during the Jacob Zuma years – see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil. In the post-Zuma/state capture era, we are rightly fixated with rebuilding institutions in the criminal justice sphere, revenue collection services and the whole state-owned enterprise sector, yet little focus is placed on getting the primary institution charged with oversight of these organs of state fit for purpose.
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