BBC


South Africa's president has docked three months of the defence minister's pay after she allowed governing party officials to fly on an air force plane to Zimbabwe with her on 9 September.

Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula was accused of misusing state resources for party political business.
The defence force had argued she was on official business and had simply given the other passengers a lift.

But President Cyril Ramaphosa called it an "error of judgement".

Ms Mapisa-Nqakula had been travelling to Zimbabwe's capital Harare for a scheduled meeting to discuss regional issues.

The delegation from South Africa's governing party - the African National Congress (ANC) - was meanwhile going there for crisis talks with Zimbabwe's ruling Zanu-PF party aimed at helping tackle the country's political and economic woes.

But opposition politicians were extremely critical of the fact that she let the ANC delegation hitch a lift with her.

Mr Ramaphosa, who in coming to power had pledged to clean up the ANC's reputation after a decade of corruption scandals, said that by giving the ANC delegates a lift on the plane, she had not acted "in the best interest of good governance".

As a result, he said he had decided to dock Ms Mapisa-Nqakula's pay, with the money going to a fund to help fight coronavirus.

In response, the opposition Democratic Alliance party said Mr Ramaphosa had not gone far enough, characterising the punishment as a slap on the wrist.

The issue could be discussed further in parliament amid some calls for her to be sacked.








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In a sane country!

I hope I didn’t say much?

Arrrrrrrh

In Nigeria, Buhari daughter dey fly presidential jet nobody caution her

Naija, if person vex talk Lai Mohammed go say Na hate speech. Pay 5 Mila

Our insanity for naija is above, beyond control.

bsalawu:
In a sane country!

I hope I didn’t say much?

that's a country with functional law and responsible leaders!

Can somebody remind us of that hate speech fine again, in case of some people wey wan come bash Nigeria.

Yet Buharis aides have turned all our presidential jets to kabukabu

one man's food is another man's poison

FarahAideed:
Yet Buharis aides have turned all our presidential jets to kabukabu

shaataap

yarimo:
shaataap

Yarimo how far na ..I salute oo

:In a ditto region! I hope I didn’t say much?that's a region with function Rule and responsibility officials!

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Can never happen in Nigeria.
How we can have the highest population in Africa and still allow a useless government govern us still baffles me.