The
DA is still pushing for the ethics committee in Parliament to investigate
Minerals and Energy Minister Gwede Mantashe over allegations that he had bribed
two journalists.
Accrding
to IOL news, Mantashe had earlier said he had paid two Sunday World journalists
R70000 to quash a story over his extramarital affair with a Pretoria student
Lerato Makgatho.
But
opposition parties and civil society were up in arms and called for a probe
into him.
The
DA lodged a complaint with the ethics committee.
Mantashe
met with the Sunday World and the South African National Editors’ Forum where
he retracted his original statement, a decision the ANC welcomed.
DA
MP Kevin Mileham, who filed a complaint with the ethics committee, said the
committee must continue to investigate Mantashe irrespective of his decision to
change his tune.
“The
DA remains firm in its stance that an investigation must be conducted by
Parliament’s joint committee on ethics and members’ interests with regards to
Mantashe’s conduct.
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