ANC’s Mbalula In Serious Trouble With Afriforum

Lobby group AfriForum said it will not stop in its pursuit to have the former sports minister, Fikile Mbalula, prosecuted for a Dubai vacation that a government service provider sponsored.

In 2016, Mbalula took his family on a trip to the United Arab Emirates that cost R680,000.

When news of the trip broke and that Mbalula had not paid the travel agency, a company that’s a subsidiary of Sedgars Sports settled about R300,000 of the bill.

At the time, Sedgars Sports was a service provider to the SA Sports Federation and South African Sports Confederation and Olympic Committee (SASCOC).

During a briefing at AfriForum’s headquarters in Centurion on Wednesday, its private prosecutions unit released a dossier on Mbalula, which it has sent to the new head of the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA).

The unit’s head, Gerrie Nel, said: “We wrote to them indicating there is a deliberate misunderstanding of corruption that there was a deliberate failure to ensure there was a completed investigation.”