The Bill Episode 28: Inside South Africa's commissions of inquiry: politics or theatre?
Test Consolidated Playlist · 27 November 2025 · 26m
Speaker 1: Hello, My name is nesticki Itt and welcome to the Ball where we talk politics, Speaker 1: Parliament and a hot take or two. Hello again to hope you've had a good Speaker 1: week covering Parliament, particularly the ad Committee, and that's where I want to start. I Speaker 1: want to start talking about the ADDA Committee and the Midlanger Commission to broadcast live, Speaker 1: very important committees and inquiries into the allegations of plantlam Quanazi. But what I want Speaker 1: to put forward is that I don't think and much as these transparency open to Speaker 1: the public to consume both these two forums, I don't think from what I year Speaker 1: from the public and what I read in the comment threads of social media sites, Speaker 1: these two commissions and the twenty four hour coverage, it's not necessarily adding to quality Speaker 1: public leaked discourse of what are incredibly important dishes in South Africa, and that is Speaker 1: alleged corruption in the South African Police Service. Speaker 2: Yes and no, I think you look at the opposite, say, the out of committee Speaker 2: and the mid Longer Commissioner had to happen in camera and it was just the Speaker 2: only reports we got with the journalists who had security clearance, who could be inside Speaker 2: and would subsequently write about the proceedings. Speaker 3: I think then the argument. Speaker 2: Would be, well, this needs to be open and faith this needs to be in Speaker 2: the public eye, even though I mean on average when you check the live streams, Speaker 2: because Parliament is live dreamed about like seven hundred people watching it at the time, Speaker 2:…
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