DA not satisfied with Speaker’s explanations about a chartered flight

The Democratic Alliance says National Assembly speaker Baleka Mbete's response to the party’s concerns about her 470-thousand rand trip to Monrovia in January to attend Liberian President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf's inauguration is wholly unsatisfactory. This follows a letter to the Speaker in which DA chief whip Douglas Gibson questioned if her chartered-aircraft trip to Monrovia was necessary at all. Mbete had said her office had booked her on a commercial flight, but this was cancelled because she would have been absent from parliament for nine days. The DA says it is difficult to believe that other commercial flight options, which would not have entailed such lengthy delays, were not available. According to the DA Mbete has failed to answer questions satisfactorily and, in some cases, she has not answered them at all.
South Africa was represented at the inauguration by President Thabo Mbeki and Foreign Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma.