The president will be forced to prove his committment to root out corruption if parliament debates the misappropriation of funds relating to Covid-19 tenders
The president will be forced to prove his commitment to root out corruption if parliament debates the misappropriation of funds relating to Covid-19 tendersPresident Cyril Ramaphosa, who rose to the highest office on an anti-corruption ticket, will be forced to prove his mettle if parliament debates the misappropriation of funds relating to Covid-19 tenders.
DA interim leader John Steenhuisen has written to National Assembly speaker Thandi Modise, calling on her to schedule an urgent parliamentary debate on the matter. Presidency spokesperson Khusela Diko had to temporarily step aside from her position after it emerged that her husband was awarded a contract worth R124m by the Gauteng health department to supply personal protective equipment . Diko is a member of the ANC provincial executive committee in Gauteng.
Tuwo Rhodesia, a company owned by former minister Nomvula Mokonyane’s daughter, Katleho, was handed a R2.7m contract to supply soap to Gauteng’s health department, the website reported. “The governing party and those connected to its elite cannot be allowed to repurpose a national state of disaster as a means of self-enrichment when the very lives and livelihoods of ordinary South Africans are at immediate peril,” said Steenhuisen.
They did not “rule out mobilising for the mother of all political strikes against a rotten and corrupt ANC government”.
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