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Defense Minister Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula.
- An intruder gained access to the home of Defense Minister Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula in East London over the weekend.
- The person was unable to explain to the caretaker how they had accessed the property.
- The minister was at her residence in Gauteng at the time.
Defense Minister Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula is unharmed after an intruder entered her East London home. She had been at his residence in Gauteng at the time.
South African National Defense Force spokesman Siphiwe Dlamini said in a statement that the person “illegally gained access to his home in East London” over the weekend.
He said that the intruder was confronted by the caretaker of the house, but that “he could not explain how he was able to access or identify himself, nor who he was or where he came from.”
Dlamini said the minister had been on sick leave and recovering at her residence in Gauteng for the past three weeks. “The minister was never near East London at any point as she was on sick leave,” he said.
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Dlamini also referred to “malicious and insulting comments” that circulated on social media about the incident, saying that Mapisa-Nqakula dismissed them with contempt.
Mapisa-Nqakula’s salary was cut for three months in September after she allowed several ANC leaders to piggyback on an official flight to Zimbabwe to meet with Zanu-PF.
Since then, the district attorney has complained that she had not been able to produce minutes of the official meeting she said she had with her counterpart during that trip.
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