Deputy President David Mabuza is neither “incapacitated” nor lying in a sick bed in an intensive care unit, but is merely heeding medical advice by staying away from question-and-answer sessions with MPs in parliament, his parliamentary counsellor, Hope Papo, said Thursday.

Papo, an ANC MP, told a meeting of the National Assembly’s programme committee on Thursday that the DA was being “insensitive” after it inquired about the deputy president's whereabouts...

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