The DA has laid formal complaints with Parliament’s ethics committee and to Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane against Mineral Resources Minister Mosebenzi Zwane, for having deliberately misled Parliament. DA spokesperson on mineral resources James Lorimer said on Tuesday that it appeared that Zwane had deliberately misrepresented information when he stated, in a written reply to a parliamentary question, that his December 2015 trip to Dubai was organised and paid for by the Department of Mineral Resources. This contradicted the finding of former public protector Thuli Madonsela, in her State of Capture report, that Zwane had not used the ticket the department purchased for him to travel from Zurich to Dubai. Also, the leaked Gupta e-mails list Zwane, along with Tony Gupta, as a passenger on a Gupta-sponsored flight that was cleared to fly to Dubai on December 2 2015. "In addition to these allegations, Zwane has also seemingly mislead Parliament when he failed to satisfactorily ans...
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