Kabelo Kgobisa-Ngcaba was the COO of Tony Leon’s Resolve
Communications until she entered Parliament as a DA MP.
Then she spent more than six months asking questions that
helped build a campaigning case for two of its clients. Daily
Maverick’s Rebecca Davis explains.
Reporting by: Rebecca Davis
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0:00 A DA MP, a lobbying firm, and a suspicious pattern
0:32 Inside Resolve Communications and the growing controversy
2:19 From Resolve COO to DA MP: no cooling-off period
3:27 Pisa’s pitch to Parliament, a year before she arrived
4:34 The timeline problem: moved off the Justice Committee
5:42 A second client: Securi-Tech joins the campaign
6:47 The 61.82% statistic, and a coordinated media wave
8:42 What this does — and doesn’t — prove
9:50 The bigger picture: a country with no lobbying law
