{"id":968197,"date":"2024-06-26T08:29:12","date_gmt":"2024-06-26T08:29:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/dm-simulator-v2\/?p=968197"},"modified":"2024-06-26T08:29:12","modified_gmt":"2024-06-26T08:29:12","slug":"actionsa-calls-for-probe-following-zizi-kodwas-swearing-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/actionsa-calls-for-probe-following-zizi-kodwas-swearing-in\/","title":{"rendered":"ActionSA calls for probe following Zizi Kodwa\u2019s swearing-in"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"rt-reading-time\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\">2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>ActionSA Parliamentary Caucus leader Athol Trollip says they want a probe into the swearing-in of former Minister of Sport, Arts and Culture, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sabcnews.com\/sabcnews\/i-serves-at-the-behest-of-the-anc-kodwa\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Zizi Kodwa, as a Member of Parliament<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Kodwa was sworn in yesterday along with 58 uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) Party members.<\/p>\n<p>He resigned from his position as Minister earlier this month after being <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sabcnews.com\/sabcnews\/kodwa-co-accused-granted-bail-of-r30-000-each\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">formally charged with corruption<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The charges follow recommendations in the State Capture Commission Report implicating him in corruption for alleged bribery amounting to R1.6 million.<\/p>\n<p>Trollip\u00a0says\u00a0Kodwa\u2019s\u00a0return goes against what the\u00a0ANC\u00a0and the President have been saying for a long time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cZizi Kodwa resigned shortly before the election as the Minister because there were serious charges of corruption against him. There\u2019s a prima facie case of corruption against him. He\u2019s out on bail and he gets sworn in to Parliament. So two things have happened. One, the integrity Commission of the ANC is clearly not working because even Cosatu (Congress of South African Trade Unions) have questioned him being sworn in, we are questioning him being sworn in. We are going to demand of the Ethics Committee that they investigate Mr Zizi Kodwa. Because we don\u2019t believe he\u2019s suitable to serve as a Member of Parliament,\u201d adds Trollip.<\/p>\n<p><strong>PODCAST |\u00a0 Interview with Action SA Parliament Caucus leader, Athol Trollip:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Controversy over expected return of former Arts &amp; Culture minister, Zizi Kodwa\" src=\"https:\/\/omny.fm\/shows\/first-take-sa\/controversy-over-expected-return-of-former-arts-cu\/embed\" width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Cosatu says it is shocked that the ANC went ahead with the swearing-in of Kodwa as an MP.<\/p>\n<p>The labour federation\u2019s national spokesperson Zanele Sabela says, \u201cWhen we heard that he could be sworn in, we didn\u2019t think they\u2019d actually go through with that. So it was actually a surprise given that he, you know when he was charged, he didn\u2019t need pushing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe actually just resigned and we thought, wow, amazing. We commended him on that and now to see him back in Parliament being sworn in as an MP is actually quite baffling. What happened to the step aside rule that they have come up with themselves,\u201d adds Sabela.<strong><em>-Reporting by Diteboho Ntamane<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>PODCAST: Reaction to Zizi Kodwa\u2019s swearing-in<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Yesterday, former Minister of Sport, Arts and Culture Zizi Kodwa was sworn in as a member of parliament - despite facing criminal charges relating to the one point six million rand he received from the company EOH during the state capture era.\" src=\"https:\/\/omny.fm\/shows\/safm-sunrise-1\/yesterday-former-minister-of-sport-arts-and-cultur\/embed\" width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reading Time: 2 minutes ActionSA Parliamentary Caucus leader Athol Trollip says they want a probe into the swearing-in of former Minister of Sport, Arts and Culture, Zizi Kodwa, as a Member of Parliament. Kodwa was sworn in yesterday along with 58 uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) Party members. He resigned from his position as Minister earlier this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":968198,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1895],"tags":[3118,974,1991,2472],"class_list":["post-968197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-actionsa-parliamentary-caucus-leader-athol-trollip","tag-mk-party","tag-umkhonto-wesizwe","tag-zizi-kodwa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/968197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=968197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/968197\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/968198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=968197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=968197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=968197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}