NATASHA MARRIAN: A reluctant Mapisa-Nqakula bills ANC hitchhikers for Zim flight
Opposition parties in parliament are preparing to grill the defence minister about the trip, and complaints have been lodged with the public protector
01 October 2020 - 07:00
Defence minister Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula’s initial report to President Cyril Ramaphosa on ferrying an ANC delegation to Zimbabwe at the expense of the taxpayer, during a national lockdown, was hardly remorseful.
In fact, it was a page-and-a-half, three-point note in which the minister justifies taking along the six-member ANC delegation. She says Ramaphosa had directed that the ANC send a national executive committee delegation to Zimbabwe and that she “deemed it fit” to take along the party delegation due to Covid-19 restrictions on air travel and land borders...
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