The Bill Episode 28: Inside South Africa's commissions of inquiry: politics or theatre?
The Bill · 27 November 2025 · 26m
Speaker 1: Hello, My name is Nesti Kivett 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 DOP Committee. Speaker 2: And that's where I want to start. Speaker 1: I want to start talking about the ADDA Committee and the Midlanger Commission to broadcast Speaker 1: live, very important committees and inquiries into the allegations of plantlam Quanazi. But what I Speaker 1: want to put forward is that I don't think and much as these transparency open Speaker 1: to the public to consume both these two forums, I don't think from what I Speaker 1: year from the public and what I read in the comment threads of social media Speaker 1: sites, these two commissions and the twenty four hour coverage, it's not necessarily adding to Speaker 1: quality public discourse of what are incredibly important issues in South Africa, and that is Speaker 1: alleged corruption in the South African Police Service. Speaker 3: Yes and no, I think you look at the opposite, say the other committee in Speaker 3: the mid Longer Commissioner had to happen in camera and it was just the only Speaker 3: reports we got with the journalists who had security clearance, who could be inside and Speaker 3: would subsequently write about the proceedings. Speaker 4: I think then the argument. Speaker 3: Would be, well, this needs to be open in faith, this needs to be in Speaker 3: the public eye, even though I mean on average when you check the live streams, Speaker 3: because Parliament is live streamed, about like seven hundred people watching it at the time,
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