South Africa: Nkandla Ad Hoc Committee - Mission Impossible, Day One

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We always suspected it, but Thursday's events seemed to confirm it. Bar some miraculous intervention, the special parliamentary committee convened to consider President Zuma's response to the Public Protector's report on Nkandla has very little chance of completing any meaningful work before their deadline runs out next week.

They have just three sessions to wrap things up - and one is now gone, during which little more than the election of a chair was completed.

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