The SA National Defence Force (SANDF) has confirmed that the ANC has paid the R105,000 bill it received for the controversial lift its party members were given with defence minister Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula on an air force jet to Zimbabwe.
SANDF spokesperson Siphiwe Dlamini said the ANC paid the
money on September 30 into the departmental account. The process to transfer
the money to the National Revenue Fund is under way, Dlamini said.
This comes after claims by the DA that the ANC had not paid
for the flight to Zimbabwe. The figure was contained in documents President
Cyril Ramaphosa made public on September 30, something he said he did in the
interests of “transparency”.
The documents Mapisa-Nqakula submitted to Ramaphosa show
the trip to Zimbabwe in September, when she offered “to ferry” an ANC
delegation to Harare on a party-political mission on the jet, cost the taxpayer
R232,000 in total.
The ANC was responsible for settling R105,000 of the bill
for the transportation of its seven-member delegation. The balance will be
treated as normal costs incurred for flying the defence minister and her
support staff to an official meeting.
Sunday Times Daily reported in September that Ramaphosa had
reprimanded Mapisa-Nqakula over her conduct, and fined her three months’ salary
as part of her punishment.
Mapisa-Nqakula said “in hindsight” it would “have been
prudent” of her to inform Ramaphosa
before offering the ANC delegation a lift, but she did not need “specific
permission”.
That was according to a supplementary report Mapisa-Nqakula
submitted to Ramaphosa on September 22 as he held her accountable for the trip.
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