CHARLES MOLELE
THE ANC has to pay a total amount of R105 000 to the Department of Defence for transporting its delegation to Zimbabwe on a South African Air Force jet, according to Defence Minister Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula.
The invoice for the flight was attached to Mapisa-Nqakula’s report to President Cyril Ramaphosa after it emerged that an ANC delegation had flown with her to Harare in the SANDF aircraft on September 8.
Ramaphosa said on Wednesday that the report into the controversial trip was made public in the interest of “transparency”.
On Saturday night, the president issued an official reprimand to the minister and docked her three months’ pay for conveying the ANC delegation to Zimbabwe on an aircraft of the SAAF, starting in November.
Her salary for the three months should be paid into the Solidarity Fund, which was established to support the country’s response to the coronavirus pandemic, the president
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