On February 17, parliament took the unusual step to announce that Molefe would join the ranks of its "honourable members". Round about this time it also emerged that Dr Makhosi Khoza, an ANC MP who earned the reputation that she neither suffers fools nor corruption, would be removed from the finance committee. The theory that he would be deployed to the high profile finance committee also proved to be false. On March 7 at his first committee meeting as a MP, at economic development, Molefe professed his love of socialism, Rapport reported. An hour into the sitting, before Gigaba got to answer his first question as finance minister, Molefe couldn't be spotted on his usual seat, or anywhere else in the chamber, from the press gallery.

Source: The North Africa Journal May 13, 2017 05:15 UTC