The Democratic Alliance said that it would be demanding an immediate Parliamentary inquiry into government’s role in Grace Mugabe’s “escape”from South Africa.
DA chief whip, John Steenhuisen, said in a statement Sunday that the “inquiry should call on the ministers of Police, International Relations and Cooperation, and Defence and Military Veterans to account for their failures.”
The Zimbabwe Broadcast Corporation reported on its website that President Mugabe and his wife Grace, returned to the country in the early hours of Sunday morning.
She had applied for diplomatic immunity but one of the spokespersons for the Department of International Relations and Cooperation,Clayson Monyela, said he was not authorised to speak about Mrs Mugabe, adding that no one from Dirco would respond to the inquiry from Algoa FM News.
Steenhuisen said “it is simply inexplicable how this has happened again. It illustrates how unrepentant the ANC government is and, following its complicity in allowing Sudanese president Omar al Bashir to escape an international arrest warrant, shows that the ANC government will continue to do exactly what it wants to protect their dodgy friends.”
“This government has no more legitimacy in the arena of international diplomacy and displays a total disregard for the rule of law.Indeed, the ANC has turned South Africa into a playground for the political elite and their criminal associates to act with impunity,” he added.
