Well the EFF is on their case. The EFF has now written to the Minister of Co-operative Governance and Traditional Affairs Des van Rooyen and to the Minister of Mineral Resources Msebenzi Zwane regarding their trip to Dubai in December last year (2015).
The party said earlier president Jacob Zuma went to Dubai with a large stash of cash in a suitcase he took out of the country on behalf of the Gupta family. The president’s office denied the allegations.
Now the EFF wants to now from the Minister of Co-op governance and traditional affairs if he:
(1) Went to Dubai anytime in December 2015? and
(2) If yes, what was the purpose of the trip and was President Jacob Zuma and any member of the Gupta family present in any of his meetings in there?
The Chief Whip of the EFF has also reminded government that in keeping with their constitutional duties they are to answer truthfully. If they mislead parliament, they will be in violation of the constitution (does this sound familier? Ed.)
“We want to publicly state that these questions have been posed to the ministers on the 11 April 2016 already because it is a matter of public interest to know if they have conducted themselves in the best interest of the public offices they hold. Even on a private trip, the public deserves to know if they did not form part of any business meetings. If so, even if these business interests were private, they are legally compelled to declare them, precisely so that the public can discover if there is no conflict of interest in relation to the public offices they occupy,” said the EFF in a statement.
