COPE welcomes establishment of committee to investigate xenophobic attacks

Lusanda Bill
08 May 2015

The Congress of the People has welcomed the decision for the establishment of a Joint ad hoc committee to investigate the recent xenophobic attacks in the country.

The attacks on foreign nationals which started in KwaZulu-Natal left seven people dead and several arrested.

COPE Spokesperson Dennis Bloem said we have called on Parliament since the start of these attacks to establish such a committee. We are very delighted to see that Parliament has now establish the committee.

Bloem said we also want to ask the Parliamentary Committee to investigate the well debated comments of King Goodwill Zwelithini and the son of President Jacob Zuma, Edward Zuma so that it must come to finality.