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TRANSPORT minister and ANC national executive committee (NEC) member Fikile Mbalula has apologised to cooperative governance and traditional affairs (COGTA) minister Dr Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma.
This comes after Mbalula’s Twitter tirade this week where he named Dlamini-Zuma, saying she and former president Jacob Zuma wanted to create a family dynasty in the run-up to the Nasrec conference in 2017.
Dlamini-Zuma is Zuma’a ex-wife.
In a statement released on Tuesday, Mbalula said he ‘unreservedly’ apologises to Dlamini-Zuma for the comments he made on popular social media platform, Twitter.
“On the 8 March 2021, a tweet on my timeline making reference to cde Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, on a comment about a dinner hosted by former president Zuma with candidates who were contesting the ANC presidency, appears to have been construed as an attack on cde Dlamini-Zuma,” said Mbalula.
“It is regretful and unfortunate that my comment may have come across as an
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