Reporter’s Parliamentary Notebook: ANC’s ‘Group of 10’ puts spokes in the wheels of State Capture inquiries

Parliament’s public enterprises committee inquiry into State Capture at Eskom continues next week, MPs decided on Wednesday in behind-closed-doors discussions, which included various threats made against it. But Mineral Resources Minister Mosebenzi Zwane’s sick note scuppered that parliamentary committee’s second State Capture date, now postponed to late January. In the last days of the 2017 parliamentary calendar, various efforts to come to grips with State Capture at the national legislature have highlighted ANC parliamentary caucus divisions in the run-up to the governing party’s December elective national conference – not only in committees, but also in the DA-sponsored State Capture discussion in the House. By MARIANNE MERTEN.