Lindiwe Sisulu is latest minister accused of being ‘Gupta by association’
On Tuesday, Human Settlements Minister Lindiwe Sisulu denied she had ever attended an event hosted by the controversial Gupta family, and said she had received several media queries about allegations circulating on social media that she had attended a Gupta event in 2015. "The so called ‘Gupta leaks’ e-mails doing the rounds on social media purporting that [the] minister was among the list of people who accepted some form of invite by the Gupta family in February 2015 is regrettable and should be dismissed with the contempt it deserves‚" Sisulu’s office said in a statement. "Whoever is behind this smear campaign against the minister‚ for obvious reasons‚ is urged to desist from doing so immediately." Sisulu has announced her candidacy for the ANC leadership ahead of the party’s elective conference in December. In the run-up to the hotly contested conference‚ she has frequently spoken out against state capture allegations swirling around the Guptas.
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