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The publication of the report by the Special Investigation Unit of the police puts the ANC in further trouble. The opposition accused the ruling party of protecting those targeted by the damaging report, beginning with former health minister Zweli Mkhize, who was forced to resign last June.
With our correspondent in Johannesburghandjob Claire Bargelas
The scandal darkened President Cyril Ramaphosa’s record within South Africa’s health ministry, and his promise of a new dawn and the fight against corruption at the top of the kingdom.
Because under his chairmanship, public contracts were signed by the ministry with the communications company Digital Vibes, which was to set up an awareness campaign against the pandemic. But these some 9 million euros were spent irregularly and allowed the enrichment of former minister Zweli Mkhize as well as two relatives of his son.
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In their report published this week, South African investigators are calling for sanctions against the former health minister, who for months has become the face of the fight against the coronavirus, as well as for the prosecution of its former director Amban Pillay.
The latter and five members of the ministry have since been suspended, but Cyril Ramaphosa has never publicly condemned his former minister’s behavior and continues to confirm that he, in addition, ” served the country well ».
A month away from the local elections to be held on November 1, Nelson Mandela’s landmark party would have done well without such campaigning.