Home affairs given one week to

JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA – AUGUST 21: Atul Gupta at the launch of ANN7 news channel on August 21, 2013, in Johannesburg, South Africa. (Photo by Gallo Images / Sunday Times / James Oatway

Home affairs given one week to explain how Guptas got SA citizenship

Parliament’s done playing.

Home affairs given one week to

JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA – AUGUST 21: Atul Gupta at the launch of ANN7 news channel on August 21, 2013, in Johannesburg, South Africa. (Photo by Gallo Images / Sunday Times / James Oatway

It’s not often that parliament would want answers on how a particular family gained South African citizenship; let alone appoint no less than four separate bodies to investigate said family’s citizenship, but then again… the Guptas are no ordinary family.

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In fact, this family has made such a profound impact – if you read the emai… ahem, newspapers – on South African politics and by extension the economy, that they warrant their own parliamentary enquiries, judicial reviews and Public Protector reports.

To that effect, the director general was scheduled to appear before parliament’s home affairs portfolio committee on Tuesday, but alas, MPs who had hoped to probe him on the processes followed in getting the Guptas their SA citizenship were left disappointed.

Mkuseli Apleni was called to parliament after the EFF leaked docs showing how then home affairs minister and now finance minister Malusi Gigaba cut corners in helping the Guptas secure their citizenship. Gigaba will also get his turn in parly, although the committee is still divided as to whether he and Apleni should be summoned officially.

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According to EWN, committee chair, Lemias Mahile has given the department until next week to see the records of the first family of state captures citizenship process.

 “Make sure that we speak to them and follow the paper trail,” Mahile said on Tuesday.