DA wants parliament etchics committee to investigate Mantashe


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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