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Parliament Speaker Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula has agreed to a request by Good party’s Brett Herron to schedule an urgent debate on the failed extradition of persons implicated in corruption.
In response yesterday to Herron’s request – submitted on 11 April 2023, just days after South Africans were informed that the United Arab Emirates had rejected South Africa’s request to surrender Atul and Rajesh Gupta to stand trial for state capture – Mapisa-Nqakula said she agreed that the topic was important and of public interest.
The topic of the debate proposed by Herron is: “The failure of the government to extradite persons implicated in corruption, as evidenced by the recent case in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), and its consequences.”
According to Mapisa-Nqakula, the topic meets the criteria set out in Rule 130 of the National Assembly, and the Programme Committee will be requested to schedule the debate.
The extradition of the so-called Gupta brothers was “of significant legal, moral, political and emotional importance to South Africa”.
The country has invested nearly R1 billion in the Zondo Commission of Inquiry into State Capture, and citizens have invested great confidence and hope that the process will lead to prosecution and justice.
The Guptas were allegedly leading beneficiaries of state capture, and were repeatedly implicated in the report of the Zondo Commission.
“South Africans deserve to know what went wrong and who should be held responsible for government’s extradition failures,” says Herron.
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