'R1bn Tottenham Hotspur sponsorship deal unjustifiable,' says Presidency

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Tourism minister Lindiwe Sisulu may be in hot water after President Cyril Ramaphosa’s office on Friday said it did not give her the green light go ahead with the R1bn Tottenham Hotspur sponsorship deal using taxpayer money.

DA MP Manny de Freitas told TimesLIVE that a delegation from DA abroad has been designated to approach the club in London to ascertain the status of the deal and if money has exchanged hands., an effort that was stopped by Solidarity in the courts.

“Our country is in a power crisis. Consumers are being crushed by inflation. There is no way the ANC will be able to condone such a decision in the 2024 election, not even among its staunchest supporters,” De Freitas said.South Africa Tourism acting CEO Themba Khumalo reportedly said it was not the responsibility of the agency to resolve the country's energy crisis or fix its potholes.

“According to the Tourism Act 3 of 2014 the mandate of SAT is to market South Africa as a tourist destination domestically and internationally,” Khumalo said. “We have 24 markets around the world we focus on. For the past 20 years money has been spent on foreign soil — whether on a single initiative, as was being envisaged now, on small campaigns with different travel agents and pockets of audiences — to persuade foreign nationals to travel in SA.”

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This is a very good example how the ANC has mismanaged public funds. Tax money is easy money for government to get their hands on giving officials huge amounts of cash to splash. Public funds allocated for service delivery is not meant for investments and dodgy deals.

Oh big whoopi. And then? What will he do?

Oh please the whole cabinet is in hot water and i dont see a single one burning.

Is the minister insane to allege green light from the president. I don't think so they should be a written proposal to the president. If she did approve the sponsorship without consultation than there are mission to be achieved by committing corruptions 🤭

Im sure I she made a statement thearlier the week that she has not been briefed about the deal with Spurs.

The arrogance of these guys, but then again who I'm I

When wil she b fired cause she do as she wants and have no respect for citizens and have no heart and soul for citizens who suffers all this cow care about is overseas money must b givin 2 every country outside of rsa

Its time the babie doll must go . Blunder after blunder she must be adored by Ramaphosa possibly.

The ANC president plays dirty all the time, he knew that something is happening but kept quiet until citizens get angrier.

MAY... being the operative word.

There's no way he'd have given the green light on a 2017 project....

Perfect opportunity for Cyril boot her out

One billion... poop!! Down the drain.

She feels entitled because of her surname, but useless beyond.

Effects of Loadshedding ... the robots were off

I doubt she needed the green light from Ramaphosa, after all she said it herself that she doesn't believe in his leadership. She believes in herself.

...Says Malume CR17 after first consulting with Bra Nathi before dissing the THFC 🇿🇦 flagpole-vanity project...

Ramaphosa is always shocked

SAT confirmed what Minister Sisulu said in her statement she wasn't briefed on this matter, surely she is at sea on this on.

At last the government realises who’s money it is. Taxpayers money. For 30 years treating all funds as ANC funds. In Shallcross they built a bridge over a river to Escombe and erected a billboard stating this bridge was built by the ANC. Total lies. Taxpayers money built the it.

The operative words is 'tax payers money'. The ANC don't care about its people.... It's more worried who will get what out of that deal...

This may prove that we have the weakest president, centre is really not holding.

Still trying to figure out how the minister is involved as I heard that this was a proposal yet to be presented to the ministry, we shouldn't politicize everything, let's get the facts, worse coming from the media

You forget Barbie said she didn’t know 🤔🤔

But he was gonna announce the deal at SONA 2023 according to the dailymaverick article. Silawulwa ngobu bhanxa

They should all be fired

Ha ha ha.!

The ANC is finished! Come 2024, Action4SA will deliver an HISTORIC upset countrywide. voteoutANC

Remove her......incompetent!

Maybe 🤣 please she has nothing to do with the deal. You wish

Shame with loadshedding…she couldn’t see the light… those nyaope guys were guiding her.

Yet he complains about red tape. Eskom is a mess cause of regulation. He creates red tape and wonders y. What a useless thing this Cyril. All ministers must ask him for approval? Is there no approval framework. He is lying. Outrage forced him

It's called immediate dismissal

Jaa,wa phapha MX!!!

really now? This is fake news. LindiweSisuluSA never approved or proposed SPURS DEAL!!! SA TOURISM AGENCY CLARIFIED THIS yesterday. Why are you putting a false narrative trying to taint LindiweSisuluSA image?

Careful.. Remember what the C I A said bout the Media & Government Propaganda? 🔥🔥☝️☝️

This whole deal was started in 2017 i wonder who was Tourism minister that time cause it was not Lindiwe

Shouldn’t she be out in the resuffle weeks ago? Oh I forgot we a have a president with no 🍒

Does that mean Cyril gave Pravin green light to sell SAA for R53

Well Someone did the deal was basically almost done...

Tottenham Hotspur supporter

First it was that pole or flag or something ka Mthethwa. Today its Hotspurs latest signing and the Pres is always shocked and never gave the greenlight. Uzayibona njani ilight in the dark, Pres?

politicking

Even when the ship is sinking they have a duty to keep playing music.

TBABY_336 There is no hot water there, it's just cold icy water and a media PR leadership which you boil to precipitate her removal to cover-up a lie you sold to SA public, there is no need to mislead the public anymore, all cabinet ministers seat in cabinet with the President.

Imagine, R1000000000.00 given to the colonizers while there is no water, no electricity, service delivery that is non-existent! ANCisOut2024 VoteANC!

She's not scared, has no respect for Cyril..

I hope this will be the last of her

Imagine spending 1 billion, while hotels struggle to keep their doors open and have to retrench staff, lack of tourists caused by persistent outages. Let's prioritize investing in solutions to Loadshedding, to support our hospitality industry and revive tourism in SA.

When will Lindiwe Sisulu be shown the door. She is NOT in pursuit of CR’s ANC LEADERSHIP, not at all. Even a five year old knows that she is opposed to CR’s governance leadership and all of this is her running her own business - she just needs to be shown the door…

Lol 😂 le maka 🤣🤣🤣

She has been desperate to cash in somewhere. Pathetic!

MontjaKhaladi Benefits would be huge more than R1bn

😂😂😂. He will again say 'cancel that thing'.

Ramaphosa is only saying this because they were caught before the deal went through! 😂 Alot of comrades would have benefitted from this deal. We know how the ANC makes money mos!

Lindiwe has always shown middle finger to his Excellency and i know for sure she wont apologize😂

Dear Mr President, please let go of all your ministers. They are not qualified to be in these positions.

She must be fired

Give it to De Ruyter

You are lying. SA Tourism has it’s board like Eskom has it’s board. Does Eskom need jamnands to buy diesel? And jamnandas must ask the president for approval?

Mandate Mandate is from the presidential office. Unless you hire people and they have no clue?

this sisulu old lady is busy messing up uncle cyril,s cabinet when is her case together with ugogo nkosazana about parliament vote is gonna be heard🤷‍♂️

CyrilRamaphosa PresidencyZA it’s time to fire the incompetent LindiweSisuluSA

Fire Barbie Lindiwe Sisulu & her pink gloves

How much was that flag again...

The acting CEO said Mme Sisulu wasnt part of this as this thing started 2017.

So yall believe that

Cyril needs to pull the plug on Barbie girl LindiweSisuluSA

In hot water kuphi?. You guys like portraying Cyril as someone who knows how to discipline his ministers.

This deal is not justifiable using which test? The executive team has not even presented a business case. This Ramaphosa guy uyacasula noma ungasafuni.

Susulu lives in Wakanda 🙄

Boring south Africa 😴🙄

At least his hands are not tied here 🫶🏽

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