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President Cyril Ramaphosa.
- President Cyril Ramaphosa has released Defense Minister Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula’s report on the controversial flight to Zimbabwe, which featured the ANC bigwigs.
- He said it was in the interest of transparency.
- This after he announced over the weekend that he had sanctioned Mapisa-Nqakula by taking three months off his salary.
President Cyril Ramaphosa has released documentation related to the controversial South African Air Force flight to Zimbabwe by Defense and Military veterans Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula, in which ANC officials received a lift.
“The publication of the initial and supplementary reports from the minister to the president is based on the president’s commitment to transparency,” read the statement issued by the presidency on Wednesday afternoon.
On Saturday night, Ramaphosa announced that he had reprimanded Mapisa-Nqakula.
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“The president has sanctioned the minister by imposing a salary sacrifice on the minister’s salary for three months, starting on November 1, 2020. Her salary for the three months must be paid into the Solidarity Fund, which was established to support the country’s response to the coronavirus pandemic, “read Wednesday’s statement.
“The president also ordered the minister to ensure that the ANC reimburses the state for the costs of the flight to Harare and to inform it once it has been done.”
Lift
Amid public outrage after news broke that senior ANC officials Ace Magashule, Tony Yengeni and Dakota Lekgoete were “brought” along with Social Development Minister Lindiwe Zulu to Zimbabwe earlier this month, Ramaphosa ordered Mapisa-Nqakula to provide him with a report. on the matter.
His reprimand followed his consideration of this initial report and a supplemental report that he had ordered him to provide on the circumstances that led the ANC delegation to travel on an air force plane.
“While the minister was on an official trip for which the president had given permission and for which he had the right to use an air force plane, the president considered that it was an error in judgment to use the plane to transfer a delegation of politic party. “
The reports can be accessed on the website of the Presidency.
