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

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StateCapatureInquiry | 'I received a call from Ajay Gupta, where he congratulated me before I was even appointed as a minister.'

"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.

After he raised the issue in the NEC, he said he was called to numerous meetings with Gupta, 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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Question! If there is THIRD PARTY interference in appointing ministers, does it mean that that minister is illegitimate?

Mr fearfokkol must just admit that he got promoted from Deputy minister to Minister post because of the Guptas. What a shame!!!

So even Ramaphosa didn't back him

Wow really now. Never trust a human being but trust a stone.

who rubbished this young man?

TimesLIVE heey these Gupta's nearly captured every South African

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