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The IFP has expressed outrage at the decision to cancel today's programme of the NCOP provincial week in the KwaZulu-Natal Legislature and replace it with an ANC party political workshop.
"This is a blatant example of abuse of the taxpayers' money for party political purposes. The NCOP delegates have been invited to Pietermaritzburg at taxpayers' expense and are expected to fulfill their constitutional mandate. Instead, non-ANC members of the delegation have been left in limbo as their ANC colleagues attend a party political workshop," said IFP Chief Whip in the KwaZulu-Natal Legislature Henry Combrinck.
The multi-party NCOP delegation was scheduled to visit two developmental projects in Pietermaritzburg as well as the site of the Dube Trade Port in Durban today. "This programme was inexplicably scrapped and replaced with an ANC workshop as a platform for ANC members to debate such items as their political programme and staff organogram," said Combrinck.
The NCOP provincial week, according to the programme supplied to all participants, is "one of the key mechanisms by the National Council of Provinces to achieve its constitutional mandate of representing the country's provinces in the national sphere". "Today's alternative programme has achieved no such thing. Apparently, the express aim of the NCOP now is to serve narrow party political interests," said Combrinck.
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