Ramaphosa returns to the hot seat again to face parly questions over Phala Phala

The beleaguered President Cyril Ramaphosa will this afternoon return to parliament to answer truncated questions related to the Phala Phala saga after his last Q & A session was aborted last month.

Parliament descended into chaos and heckling after Ramaphosa allegedly failed to answer directly to the questions imposed by opposition parties, and this led to the speaker of the parliament, Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula, calling off the Q & A session.

Members of parliament squabbled over whether he answered an African Transformation Movement (ATM) question about his handling of the scandal.

Today, September 29, Ramaphosa is expected to give answers to outstanding questions over an ‘underhand‘ robbery and theft case that occurred at his Phala Phala game farm.

Last month, Mapisa-Nqakula confirmed that the President will deal with the supplementary questions “that will be in addition to the questions that will be on the order paper for the day,” said speaker of the national assembly.

Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) deputy leader and chief whip, Floyd Shivambu, rubbished Mapisa-Nqakula’s feedback and said MPs should not accept that “Mr Ramaphosa cannot come and account”.

“It’s completely unacceptable that we are now being dictated to by the President, who is supposed to account to parliament, about things which are bordering on him committing crime and undermining the laws of this country.

Where is the relative autonomy of parliament when a president just does as he wishes?,” said exasperated Shivambu.

Ramaphosa refused to answer direct questions, citing that there were already investigation processes and he won’t answer certain questions, when he was asked to provide in depth on what transpired at his controversial farm.