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DA MP Dianne Kohler Barnard
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Cape Town – A week after accusing DA MP Dianne Kohler Barnard of misconduct and calling for her removal from Parliament\u2019s ethics committee, the ruling party is again demanding her head. <\/p>\n
This time the ANC in Parliament has lodged another misconduct complaint against her relating to a separate incident in November last year. <\/p>\n
The charge was laid by ANC MP and police portfolio committee chairwoman Annelize van Wyk in a November 6 letter to house chairman Cedric Frolick. <\/p>\n
Van Wyk\u2019s letter, seen by Independent Newspapers, states that \u201ca member of the committee acted unethically by releasing and misrepresenting confidential discussions of the closed meeting of the committee to the media\u201d. <\/p>\n
The information related to the Private Security lndustry Regulations Bill. <\/p>\n
Kohler Barnard had released a statement about the bill on November 7. <\/p>\n
In her report to Frolick, Van Wyk said that IFP MP Velaphi Ndlovu had requested that the meeting be closed \u201cin order for individual members to discuss concerns pertaining to the bill\u201d. <\/p>\n
The request was granted. <\/p>\n
\u201cThe member in question did not act in the good of the committee by disclosing concerns raised during a confidential meeting of the committee,\u201d said Van Wyk. <\/p>\n
ANC chief whip Stone Sizani\u2019s spokesman, Moloto Mothapo, confirmed Van Wyk\u2019s complaint on Sunday. <\/p>\n
He said the ANC had already received a confirmation letter from the Speaker\u2019s office about the Pule complaint. <\/p>\n
Kohler Barnard\u2019s first case is linked to a column in Post newspaper, written by journalist Nazareen Ebrahim, one of the DA MP\u2019s Facebook friends. <\/p>\n
In a statement released last week, Sizani said Ebrahim wrote that \u201cDemocratic Alliance MP Dianne Kohler-Barnard provided informative enough updates about the matter through Facebook posts\u201d. <\/p>\n
Sizani said Ebrahim also said that Pule \u201cnearly \u2018Puled\u2019 the wool over Parliament\u2019s ethics committee\u2019s eyes\u201d. <\/p>\n
On Sunday Kohler Barnard dismissed both charges against her as mere \u201cfabrications\u201d, and vowed to take legal action. <\/p>\n
She said it was strange that a complaint from almost a year ago was only cropping up now. <\/p>\n
The DA MP said the complaints were just an attempt to shift focus from disgraced former communications minister Dina Pule, who was recently sanctioned by the ethics committee. <\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s nonsense. What confidential discussion? I don\u2019t know what you\u2019re talking about. This is the first I\u2019ve ever heard of it,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n
She accused the ANC of dragging her name through the mud \u201cand equating me with Dina Pule\u201d. <\/p>\n
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Kohler Barnard said Sizani\u2019s accusations were a result of \u201ctotal misinterpretation\u201d. <\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m even more determined to take the legal route. I have my reputation to protect,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n
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DA chief whip Watty Watson subsequently said Sizani\u2019s \u201cfalse\u201d accusations against Kohler Barnard were \u201cnothing more than an attempt to draw attention away from their failure to take decisive action against Dina Pule\u201d. <\/p>\n
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