Four of Parliament’s committee chairs have been accused of significant ethical violations over the past three years, but only one investigation into those alleged breaches has been finalised. In addition, there is no certainty when any of the other probes will be completed, notes Business Day. Bongani Bongo, Faith Muthambi, Tina Joemat-Pettersson and Mosebenzi Zwane, all Ministers under former President Jacob Zuma, have been the subject of complaints made to Parliament’s Joint Committee on Ethics and Members Interests from 2016 to 2018. Only one of these complaints has been resolved: with a decision not to investigate Joemat-Pettersson. But the remaining former Ministers have spent years with unresolved accusations, ranging from bribery to misleading Parliament, hanging over their heads. Parliamentary spokesperson Moloto Mothapo said ‘you can’t impose time frames’ on the ‘due process’ and resolution of ethical complaints against MPs. ‘The committee deals with issues as expeditiously as it could, and observing all principles of natural justice.’