Communications and Digital Technologies Minister Stella Ndabeni-Abrahams deliberately withheld from Parliament that Finance Minister, Tito Mboweni had declined to provide a guarantee to the SABC, the Democratic Alliance has claimed.
The DAs assertion is based on a letter, which the party said it’s seen, from Mboweni to Ndabeni-Abrahams.
“I therefore do not concur to the issuance of the R3.2 billion guarantee,” the letter dated 25 June 2019 purportedly reads, Phumzile Van Damme, DA Shadow Minister of Communications & Digital Technologies said in a statement.
Ndabeni-Abrahams appeared before the Portfolio Committee on Communications on 3 July 2019 and made no mention of the letter, which contained crucial information that not only the public, but Parliament the body to which she is accountable to, ought to have been appraised of, Van Damme added.
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