The DA said President Zuma has acted in defiance of Parliament by promoting Communication Minister, Faith Muthambi, to co-Chair of the Inter-Ministerial Committee on Communication.
DA MP, Phumzile van Damme, said this appointment flies in the face of a hard-hitting report by the ad-hoc Parliamentary on the SABC which found that Minister Muthambi “had “displayed incompetence” in carrying out her responsibilities as Shareholder Representative at the SABC.
She said that President should “seriously reconsider” the desirability of her retaining the Communications portfolio.
“President Zuma’s promotion of Muthambi does not in any way demonstrate that he has considered the serious findings against Muthambi and is, in fact, a vote of confidence in her abilities as a Minister,” Van Damme said.
“By ignoring the findings and recommendations of the SABC inquiry report, President Zuma is therefore in active defiance Parliament,” she said.
Van Damme said she would be submitting parliamentary questions to President Zuma requesting his reasons for ignoring the recommendations of a report of Parliament and why Muthambi has not been fired.
“We will also write to the Leader of Government Business to ask him to intervene in this matter based on the damning findings against Muthambi in the Parliamentary report,” Van Damme said.
