THE Democratic Alliance announced on Wednesday that it will lay criminal charges against the ANC’s delegation to Zimbabwe for abusing a State aircraft as well as for flouting COVID-19 lockdown regulations.
This comes a day after the ANC said would reimburse government for the trip to Zimbabwe, where senior members of the party travelled on an air force flight to attend a meeting with the ruling ZANU-PF amid allegations of human rights violations in that country.
The DA’s shadow minister of defence, Kobus Marais, said the ANC’s admission of guilt and promise to pay back the money should not deter President Cyril Ramaphosa to release the report from Minister Mapisa-Nqakula. Parliament and the Nation have the right to scrutinize that report.
“Just like ordinary South Africans who now bear the burden of potential criminal records for breaking lockdown regulations, the ten ANC delegates who undertook this illegal trip in an
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