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The vice president will respond to oral questions from the NCOP later this week after postponing two previous appearances in the National Assembly due to health concerns.
FILE: Vice President David Mabuza follows sanitation protocols as he evaluates the Free State’s response to the coronavirus outbreak. Image: @ PresidencyZA / Twitter
CAPE TOWN – Vice President David Mabuza informed Parliament that he will be available to face members of the National Council of Provinces (NCOP) this week.
Mabuza will receive oral questions from the NCOP later this week after postponing two previous appearances in the National Assembly due to health concerns.
In early August, the Vice President’s Office said it had received numerous calls from South Africans concerned about Mabuza’s health condition.
A few weeks later, Mabuza was expected to answer oral questions in the National Assembly, but had to suspend him due to health problems.
On Monday, Mabuza spokesman Matshepo Seedat said that, unlike on the previous two occasions, Mabuza would make an appearance Thursday afternoon.
Mabuza also addressed his health at a post-ANC national executive committee (NEC) briefing, saying that people had already declared him dead.
“My health situation is improving, so I am grateful to have survived. Some of our people were already circulating information that I am dead. Well, I’m still alive, ”he said.
DP David Mabuza, answering the question about where he has been: “I got sick for a period of a month, simply because of my health … this is my 10th day at work, my condition is improving.” He refutes [obvious] fake news of his death. https://t.co/enwI3z3O8O #ANCNEC pic.twitter.com/5wGa2gxp5d
– EWN reporter (@ewnreporter) August 31, 2020
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