Due Diligence

Parliament to investigate Gupta family’s citizenship

The Portfolio Committee on Home Affairs will institute a full-scale parliamentary inquiry into the Gupta family’s citizenship.

The Parliament Portfolio Committee on Home Affairs has agreed to institute a full-scale parliamentary inquiry into the Gupta family’s citizenship.

This decision follows a letter the Democratic Alliance (DA) wrote to the Chairperson of the Committee requesting an investigation into the controversy surrounding the naturalisation of the Gupta Family.

In the letter, the DA revealed that several more members of the Gupta Family were granted citizenship, however this information was never revealed or reported to Parliament, as is required by law.

In addition, Minister Malusi Gigaba and his department only explained the circumstances surrounding the naturalisation of five Gupta family members, when there was in fact a further six members of the Gupta family that are South African citizens and registered as voters on the IEC database.

However the DA has promised to ensure that the Minister and the Guptas have no opportunity to dodge accounting to Parliament during this inquiry.