The Gupta family has been advised by their lawyer, Gert van der Merwe, to take legal action against Vytjie Mentor following a Facebook post by the former ANC MP. Mentor claimed that the social grant crisis was designed by Social Development Minister Bathabile Dlamini so the payment of 17-million grants could be handed to a Gupta-owned company "at the 11th hour". "Everything I write down is true‚" Mentor said on Monday‚ but refused to divulge her sources, saying she had posted in the public interest. But Van der Merwe hit back, saying that at some point "one had to add at least an e-mail‚ or a note or something" to claims so those who had to react could do so properly.
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