The DA has started a new fight with the Department of Public Works over Nkandlagate, this time wanting to know if President Jacob Zuma signed off the architectural plans for his home.
DA MP Anchen Dreyer yesterday filed an application under the Promotion of Access to Information Act in a bid to force Public Works Minister Thulas Nxesi to reveal who signed off on Nkandla's architectural plans.
Dreyer said the DA was forced to use the PAIA application after Nxesi refused to answer a question in Parliament last week.
"Nxesi claims the department cannot provide details due to the ongoing Special Investigating Unit investigation," she said.
Dreyer said it was strange that Nxesi had been responding to other questions on the matter, but he "refuses to provide an answer to this question".
The DA MP said her party wanted to strengthen the campaign to have Zuma impeached following the public protector's finding that Zuma unduly benefited from upgrades to his house.
"If President Zuma did sign these plans, it further proves that he had intimate knowledge of the upgrades. It would then mean he deliberately misled Parliament and the nation about what he knew and didn't know regarding the upgrades," she said.
Dreyer's application came in the wake of speculation that National Assembly speaker Max Sisulu intended to establish a multiparty ad hoc committee to deal with Madonsela's report on Nkandla.
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