{"id":2090,"date":"2020-09-13T08:00:55","date_gmt":"2020-09-13T06:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=433082"},"modified":"2020-09-13T08:00:55","modified_gmt":"2020-09-13T06:00:55","slug":"ramaphosa-wants-answers-over-military-jet-used-as-an-uber-by-anc-officials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/interwebdev.co.za\/index.php\/2020\/09\/13\/ramaphosa-wants-answers-over-military-jet-used-as-an-uber-by-anc-officials\/","title":{"rendered":"Ramaphosa wants answers over military jet used as an Uber by ANC officials"},"content":{"rendered":"
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President Cyril Ramaphosa has ordered defence minister, Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula, to provide him with a detailed report on the circumstances that led to the her sharing a flight Zimbabwe, with a senior delegation of ANC leadership.<\/p>\n

The minister used an Air Force VIP plane this week to give ANC members \u2013 including social development minister Lindiwe Zulu, and ANC secretary-general Ace Magashule \u2013 a lift to the Zimbabwean capital, Harare, ignoring level 2 lockdown regulations.<\/p>\n

According to a report by the Sunday Times<\/a>, the Department of Home Affairs is set to investigate whether the passengers that flew to Harare breached national lockdown rules. Under current lockdown laws, the country\u2019s borders remain closed for ordinary citizens such as Magashule.<\/p>\n

It said that home affairs minister Dr Aaron Motsoaledi instructed his officials to conduct the probe on Thursday.<\/p>\n

The paper reported that the meeting with Zimbabwe \u2019s defence and war veterans minister, Oppah Muchinguri-Kashiri, lasted less than an hour. It said that the ANC has denied that the junket is an abuse of taxpayer funds, claiming that the visit was in the national interest.<\/p>\n

It is believed that only two members of the delegation are in self quarantine following the trip.<\/p>\n

The Democratic Alliance said that ANC party officials used a state military jet like an \u2018Uber\u2019 to Harare, on party business. The trip was an example of  blurring of state and party lines and abuse of state machinery. \u201cIt amounts to theft from the people, by the ANC,\u201d it said. \u201cThere is no indication of who paid for the delegation\u2019s accommodation and other expenses.\u201d<\/p>\n

ANC official, Nomvula Mokonyane, told the Sunday Times that the trip was arranged by Luthuli House.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was called as part of a delegation of the ANC, so everything that was organised for the trip was done through the ANC \u2026 the department of international relations of the ANC has been the one that was responsible,\u201d said Mokonyane.<\/p>\n

Bloomberg reported the military as saying that the visit coincided with an official meeting that Mapisa-Nqakula held in Harare, and it incurred no additional expense taking the other party members along.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe president notes the public discussion that has been generated around a flight to Harare by Minister Mapisa-Nqakula, who had permission to travel to Zimbabwe to meet her counterpart to discuss defence-related matters in the region following a recent SADC summit,\u201d the presidency said in a statement.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe president welcomes the interest shown by South Africans in this matter as an indication of the nation\u2019s vigilance against allegations of improper deployment of public resources.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Read: Ramaphosa in a show of force: \u2018This will be a turning point in the fight against corruption\u2019<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Source: BusinessTech<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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