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That was revealed after President Cyril Ramaphosa ordered the report submitted by Defense and Military veterans Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula regarding their trip to be made public.
FILE: Minister of Defense and Military Veterans Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula at a press conference on March 16, 2020 on the government’s plans to slow the spread of the coronavirus in South Africa. Image: Sethembiso Zulu / EWN
JOHANNESBURG – The president has revealed that the African National Congress (ANC) was expected to return more than 100,000 rand to the state after his controversial trip to Zimbabwe on a South African Air Force (SAAF) plane.
That comes after President Cyril Ramaphosa ordered the report submitted by Defense and Military veterans Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula on their trip to be made public.
Mapisa-Nqakula has come under fire after she allowed a high-ranking ANC delegation to take an elevator on the plane to Zimbabwe.
In the report, Mapisa-Nqakula admitted that in hindsight it would have been prudent to inform the president’s office that he would transport the ANC delegation before traveling to Zimbabwe.
The ANC was expected to pay R105,000 for the trip, which cost more than R30,000.
Over the weekend, the president rebuked Mapisa-Nqakula for what he called an “error in judgment.”
Ramaphosa also suspended the minister’s salary for three months starting November 1, 2020, and the money will go to the Solidarity Fund.
“The president also directed the minister to ensure that the ANC reimburses the state for the costs of the flight to Harare and to inform him once it has been done,” Acting Presidential spokesman Tyrone Seale said in a statement.
“The president took this action after his consideration of the minister’s initial report and a supplementary report that the president had directed the minister to provide on the circumstances that led the ANC delegation to travel on a South African Air Force (SAAF) aircraft. ) “.
The statement added: “While the minister was on an official trip for which the president had given permission and for which she had the right to use a SAAF plane, the president considered that it was an error of judgment to use the plane to transmit a political delegation of the party “.
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