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in 2015, and was the subject of a lawsuit initiated by then Telecommunications Minister Siyabonga Cwele over allegedly overspending to host a conference in 2012. On Tuesday committee member for the DA, Phumzile van Damme, questioned Buthelezi about theof Government Communications and Information System's acting CEO, Phumla Williams, before the same inquiry.
In 2018 Williams told the commission of inquiry that former minister of communications, Faith Muthambi, had asked GCIS to arrange an office for Buthelezi without due process.He said his position at GCIS at the time was part of the process of dividing up the departments of telecommunications and communications. Van Damme, however, said Buthelezi could not have held a position at GCIS during this time as he had been dismissed.
"I can say that I was presenting before a committee of Parliament during the time. I was not dismissed. Phumla Williams' testimony is incorrect and I am prepared to go before the committee to address this. She can also clarify to you what the truth is," Buthelezi said. In light of one of Buthelezi’s main claims to fame – successfully negotiating free broadcast rights for the SABC during the 2010 FIFA World Cup – the EFF's Mbuyiseni Ndlozi asked where and how these negotiations too place.
Buthelezi said they took place at the Durban International Convention Centre when EFF chair Dali Mpofu was still SABC CEO. Mbuyiseni asked Buthelezi if he was certain, as Mpofu had no recollection of overseeing such negotiations. Buthelezi insisted they did take place.
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