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Following his resignation as an MP for the 11th hour, Mduduzi Manana, a convicted woman, evaded reporting to the Joint Subcommittee on Ethics and the Interests of Members
. longer a member of the Assembly [National] and by extension, a member of Parliament, "said committee co-chair Aumsen Singh
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"Consequently, the Subcommittee and the Code find no application to Mr. Manana in light of the allegations he was to answer [to on Wednesday]."
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aujourd & # 39; hui to start with hearings on the charges against Mr. Mduduzi Manana, the joint subcommittee on & # 39; ethics and members' interests, have instead received his resignation letter at 9:30 am, "said Singh,
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Shortly afterwards at the meeting, the Pa has issued a statement confirming the resignation of Manana, which he made public on social media on Tuesday.
"Parliament confirms that Mrs. Baleka Mbete, Speaker of the National Assembly, received a letter of resignation this morning from Mr. Mduduzi Manana, resigned … as of July 24, 2018", reads -in the statement
"Mr. Manana was to appear before the Joint Committee of Parliament on the ethics and interests of members in relation to the behavior [of]." Given his resignation, this case disappears automatically because the Joint Committee and the Code of Ethics do not have jurisdiction over former members – except in cases where MPs abuse "
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In September of last year, Manana was convicted of three counts of badault with intent to cause grievous bodily harm after pleading guilty to the charges.
The charges brought against the badault of three women in Cubana at Fourways on August 6, 2017, which was filmed and became viral on social media, sparking a national outcry for his arrest.
Earlier this year, her 53-year-old domestic, Christine Wiro, alleged that he had thrown her down the stairs. The office of the chief commissioner of the ANC, Jackson Mthembu, also confirmed the resignation of Manana and said that he was "revealing of someone who took full responsibility and showed some remorse for his actions "(19459011)
. in connection with his involvement in a gender-based violence case where a court found him guilty. "
" The letter received by the Bureau, dated July 24, 2018, declares Comrade Manana's voluntary withdrawal "Comrade Manana joined the National Assembly in 2009 and served on the Human Settlements Portfolio Committee" at the time of his resignation, before serving on the Portfolio Committee on International Relations and Cooperation. , and the Public Works Portfolio Committee when he entered Parliament in 2009. He was later appointed Whip of the Portfolio Committee on Transportation in He was then badigned to the Executive as Vice -minister of Higher Education and Training – a position he resigned in 2017.
"His voluntary resignation from Parliament, coupled with his resignation from the executive in 2017, is revealing the entire responsibility and showed remorse for his actions relating to his involvement in a case of gender-based violence where a court found him guilty.
"We further note his public statement to the effect of actively participating in the campaigns"
Manana is still a member of the National Executive Committee of the ANC to which he was elected at the National Party Conference in Nasrec in December
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