Public Protector’s office takes over investigation into Zille complaint
It is alleged that Helen Zille put pressures on her government’s officials to help kick start her son’s business, which she denies
Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane’s national office has taken over an investigation into a complaint laid against Western Cape premier Helen Zille.Mkhwebane’s office in the Western Cape had been handling the complaint‚ laid by the ANC last year after Zille allegedly put pressure on officials in her government to help kick start her son’s fledgling business. At the time, The Sunday Times reported on copies of e-mails that showed the provincial government worked on tight deadlines to ensure Zille’s son‚ Paul Maree‚ and his business partner‚ Chris Mills‚ had the use of 150 new tablets worth R625‚000 for a school holiday project.They showed that the Western Cape department of education treated the project as a "priority" and did "everything it could possibly [do] to expedite" the procurement of tablets by Maree’s deadline.Their project was to run holiday workshops for matric pupils in three township schools in Cape Town. The two have since registered a business‚ Paper Video‚ based on ...
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