Mantashe’s apparatchik-speak at Zondo Commission undermines Parliament

ANC Chairperson Gwede Mantashe’s testimony that only the ANC can remove a president, not Parliament, is a Trudeau salute to the Constitution. Reminiscent of the ‘party über alles’ attitudes of the Jacob Zuma years, Mantashe has dug potential pitfalls for Parliament’s presiding officers expected to testify on Monday.