![](\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/980114d8-bee6-5c3c-94d4-f68a1b088998&operation=CROP&offset=283x0&resize=2972x1672.jpg\")
<\/div>\nCape Town \u2013 The City of Cape Town fire department and the police are set to be invited to make presentations on the fire and what happened when parts of Parliament were gutted weeks ago.<\/p>\n
This after MPs expressed their wish that the two institutions make presentations at their meeting next week.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
There have been questions after a person gained access to the parliamentary precinct in the early hours of the morning of the day the fire broke out.<\/p>\n
It has been confirmed that nobody was monitoring the CCTV cameras on the morning of the incident.<\/p>\n
The fire department last week made public a damning report by its officials that revealed that the fire sprinkler system was last serviced in 2017, among others.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
MORE ON THIS<\/span><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n\nBriefing the MPs on Friday along with officials from the Department of Public Works and Infrastructure, acting secretary to Parliament Baby Tyawa said the parliamentary protection services stopped working on weekends and public holidays since Coivid-19 broke out in March 2020.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe work of securing the precinct was given to SAPS as, indeed, this is a National Key Point,\u201d Tyawa said.<\/p>\n
She also confirmed that on January 2 \u2013 the day of the fire \u2013 all parliamentary staff were on compulsory leave between December 16 and January 3.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\n\u201cWe did not have officials on the night the fire happened. Their schedule on the precinct was to start on January 3 and the fire happened on January 2,\u201d she said, adding that there was a standby team when MPs needed to access their offices,\u201c she said.<\/p>\n
Tyawa also said the SAPS were in charge of the control access to the precinct and were supposed to patrol and monitor the CCTV cameras.<\/p>\n
\u201cAt the bottom of 100 Plein Street we have a monitoring system that is managed by SAPS. The alleged breach of security is a matter of investigation and I would not speak much about it,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\nDA MP Tim Brauteseth said he has never seen active police patrols on the perimeter of parliament since he became an MP a few years ago.<\/p>\n
He also said the SAPS should answer how the man allegedly found on the precinct gained access there.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey cannot get away from that,\u201d he charged.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\nBrauteseth also said the presentation made by parliament and the Department of Public Works and Infrastructure on the fire and security systems were incomplete.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe don\u2019t have the City of Cape Town fire service giving us a presentation. We need to have the fire department of City of Cape Town invited to give their findings.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey are literally the people at the coalface. They can report what they have seen and we can\u2019t just accept the report by DPWI,\u201d Brauteseth said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\nNFP\u2019s Munzoor Shaik-Emam enquired about the purpose of having the CCTV cameras if they were not monitored 24 hours, saying SAPS needed to explain why this was not done, particularly since it was known that parliamentary protection services were not present at the time.<\/p>\n
Peace Mabe, co-chairperson of the standing committee of financial management of Parliament, said they would invite the City of Cape Town fire department to present their report.<\/p>\n
\u201cTheir report does not purport to provide conclusive findings. There is still some work to be done to reach the finding,\u201d Mabe said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\nShe also said the police have been identified as a key role player in the fire.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe will ensure that we invite them in the next meeting,\u201d Mabe said.<\/p>\n
[email protected]<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\nPolitical Bureau<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Cape Town \u2013 The City of Cape Town fire department and the police are set to be invited to make presentations on the fire and what happened when parts of Parliament were gutted weeks ago. This after MPs expressed their wish that the two institutions make presentations at their meeting next week. There have been […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-916448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=916448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916448\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=916448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=916448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=916448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Briefing the MPs on Friday along with officials from the Department of Public Works and Infrastructure, acting secretary to Parliament Baby Tyawa said the parliamentary protection services stopped working on weekends and public holidays since Coivid-19 broke out in March 2020.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe work of securing the precinct was given to SAPS as, indeed, this is a National Key Point,\u201d Tyawa said.<\/p>\n
She also confirmed that on January 2 \u2013 the day of the fire \u2013 all parliamentary staff were on compulsory leave between December 16 and January 3.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\u201cWe did not have officials on the night the fire happened. Their schedule on the precinct was to start on January 3 and the fire happened on January 2,\u201d she said, adding that there was a standby team when MPs needed to access their offices,\u201c she said.<\/p>\n
Tyawa also said the SAPS were in charge of the control access to the precinct and were supposed to patrol and monitor the CCTV cameras.<\/p>\n
\u201cAt the bottom of 100 Plein Street we have a monitoring system that is managed by SAPS. The alleged breach of security is a matter of investigation and I would not speak much about it,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
DA MP Tim Brauteseth said he has never seen active police patrols on the perimeter of parliament since he became an MP a few years ago.<\/p>\n
He also said the SAPS should answer how the man allegedly found on the precinct gained access there.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey cannot get away from that,\u201d he charged.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Brauteseth also said the presentation made by parliament and the Department of Public Works and Infrastructure on the fire and security systems were incomplete.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe don\u2019t have the City of Cape Town fire service giving us a presentation. We need to have the fire department of City of Cape Town invited to give their findings.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey are literally the people at the coalface. They can report what they have seen and we can\u2019t just accept the report by DPWI,\u201d Brauteseth said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
NFP\u2019s Munzoor Shaik-Emam enquired about the purpose of having the CCTV cameras if they were not monitored 24 hours, saying SAPS needed to explain why this was not done, particularly since it was known that parliamentary protection services were not present at the time.<\/p>\n
Peace Mabe, co-chairperson of the standing committee of financial management of Parliament, said they would invite the City of Cape Town fire department to present their report.<\/p>\n
\u201cTheir report does not purport to provide conclusive findings. There is still some work to be done to reach the finding,\u201d Mabe said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
She also said the police have been identified as a key role player in the fire.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe will ensure that we invite them in the next meeting,\u201d Mabe said.<\/p>\n
[email protected]<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Political Bureau<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Cape Town \u2013 The City of Cape Town fire department and the police are set to be invited to make presentations on the fire and what happened when parts of Parliament were gutted weeks ago. This after MPs expressed their wish that the two institutions make presentations at their meeting next week. There have been […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-916448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=916448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916448\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=916448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=916448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=916448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}