Mlambo-Ngcuka saga continues

A crisis meeting was held on Monday afternoon in an effort to apparently limit the harm done to the government's image by deputy president Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka's controversial holiday visit to the United Arab Emirates. Reports say that Mlambo-Ngcuka and the head of communications in the presidency, Murphy Morobe, met to draw up a strategy to put an end to the perception that things were being covered up. Monday's meting follows questions from the Democratic Alliance about whether Social Development Minister Zola Skweyiya or his wife, Thuthu Mazibuko, accompanied the deputy president on her trip. Skweyiya's spokesperson, Lakela Kaunda, denied that the minister was on the flight, but said nothing about his wife.