GroundUp reports that six months ago, #UniteBehind submitted complaints to the Joint Committee on Ethics and Members’ Interests against six ANC MPs for their role in the collapse of the Passenger Rail Agency of SA (Prasa).

With no sign that the Ethics Committee was taking action against the subjects of their complaint, on Monday the commuter activist group launched an application in the Western Cape High Court. The MPs cited are Sfiso Buthelezi, Dipuo Peters, Joe Maswanganyi, Dikeledi Magadzi, Fikile Mbalula, and Mosebenzi Zwane (Mbalula resigned as an MP in March as he took up the position of ANC secretary-general, as did Magadzi in the same month). Each of these MPs #UniteBehind alleges “facilitated and enabled state capture and corruption through a failure of their ethical and legal duties of care”. Buthelezi, the Chairperson of the Standing Committee on Appropriations, is alleged to have directly benefited from corruption at Prasa. Despite numerous letters and requests for information from the Ethics Committee about its complaints, the Registrar and the Committee “have failed to provide any effective updates”, and “repeated requests have effectively been ignored”. The commuter activists have asked the High Court to declare the seeming inaction from the Ethics Committee unlawful and unconstitutional, and to direct the committee’s Registrar to “process, investigate and decide the complaints” according to a schedule determined by the court. They also want to be able to return to court if the committee and Registrar do not comply with the court’s timetable.

• Read the full original of the report in the above regard by James Stent at GroundUp

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