No date set yet for Molefe’s swearing-in
FORMER Eskom chief executive Brian Molefe will not be sworn in as an MP today‚ the ANC said yesterday.
ANC parliamentary spokesman Nonceba Mhlauli told Jacaranda FM the Office of the Speaker still had to confirm a date and time for the swearing-in ceremony.
The ANC caucus also had to decide on which committee Molefe would serve.
“Comrade Molefe will only be deployed in a committee once he is sworn in.
“The caucus leadership and Molefe will sit down and decide which committee he will be best suited to serve on. The ANC in parliament does not issue statements regarding the swearing in of MPs,” Mhlauli said.
Amid speculation that Molefe will soon be moved into a cabinet position‚ Mhlauli also confirmed ANC MP Makhosi Khoza had been moved from the standing committee on finance to the public service and administration committee.
Meanwhile‚ the ANC’s Ward 29 in Hartbeespoort Dam has produced documents to show that Molefe is a member of the branch.
This comes after ANC Tshwane secretary Paul Mojapelo confirmed to Business Day yesterday that Molefe was a member in good standing of the Irene branch.
Some members of the Hartbeespoort Dam branch‚ which falls under the Madibeng Municipality in North West‚ had claimed that Molefe was not a member of the branch and that the decision to appoint him as an MP for the area had been forced on the structure.
However‚ the North West ANC Youth League’s Papi Ratele stressed yesterday that Molefe was indeed a member of Ward 29 in Madibeng.
“We as the ANC Youth League support the branch of Ward 29 in Madibeng for them to say comrade Brian Molefe is a legitimate member of the ANC in this branch.
“According to the constitution of the ANC‚ each and every person who has six months or more [of] participating fully as a member of the ANC can be elected or elect to participate in the ANC. Therefore‚ by virtue of exceeding the six months, he is a legitimate member,” Ratele said.
“We support the notion that Brian Molefe must go and serve in national parliament. He is one of our own‚ he resides in Madibeng‚ North West‚ and he is a member of the ANC.”
The ANC’s sub-regional chairman in Madibeng, John Tshawe, said: “We are in full support of Ward 29 and what is happening in Madibeng.
“We have noticed with dismay and disappointment . . . people talking on our behalf. We see Brian Molefe making good . . . in our sub-region and putting Bokoni Bophirima [North West] on the map.”