'No one in NEC backed me over Ajay Gupta affair' - Fikile Mbalula

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'He [Ajay] gave me a call, it was in the evening. I was at a friend's place. He congratulated me and said, 'Congratulations minister of sports and recreation'.'

"I raised the Gupta issue in the meeting of the NEC. As you would have known, the matter was all over the place. Everybody was talking about Guptas this and that, and the influence they are exerting on the leadership of the ANC …

"I received a call from Ajay Gupta, where he congratulated me before I was even appointed as a minister. I didn't know I was going to be appointed as minister of what," Mbalula told the commission. "He [Ajay] gave me a call, it was in the evening. I was at a friend's place. He congratulated me and said, 'Congratulations minister of sports and recreation'. After that all he then went to talk further. I don’t recall what he talked about … I froze, in a sense, because I was taken aback ... I just said, 'Huh?'," Mbalula said.

After he raised the issue in the NEC, he said he was called to numerous meetings with the Gupta's, one of which was at the family's Saxonwold home. "Because of my stance on the Guptas as a minister of sport, they didn't like it," Mbalula said, recalling the meetings with Ajay.

 

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Ag shame,so joined the corruption squad, bloody weakling! Imagine how tall you could have walked if you became a whistle blower, but no, jump on the gravy train...

Kuyacaca okwekati elimhlophe ehlungwini ukuthi uZuma akanzenga lutho olubi

I wonder the after effects of da curry he ate ....MinisterOfCurryMrFearFokol

Boo.....fuckin.......hoo.

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