Acting Minister in the Presidency Khumbudzo Ntshavheni under scrutiny
By Mayibongwe Maqhina
MAYIBONGWE MAQHINA
Politics: Acting Minister in the Presidency Khumbudzo Ntshavheni has come under scrutiny for bunking meetings of the portfolio committee playing oversight over her Department of Small Business Development before the unrest.
Yesterday, opposition parties took a swipe at Ntshavheni who has been acting in the ministerial position previously occupied by the late minister Jackson Mthembu.
Ntshavheni was conspicuously absent when the MPs serving on the small business development committee met to plan for an oversight visit to the two provinces.
Neither her deputy Rosemary Cape nor director-general Lindokuhle Mkhumane was in attendance to brief the committee on the department’s intervention in the wake of the unrest.
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A prominent DA Councillor in the Western Cape has filed a criminal case against one of his fiercest political rivals on Wednesday. Faiez Jacobs, an ANC MP in the province, is accused of using the derogatory term ‘house-n r’ on 23 separate occasions when speaking with Angus McKenzie.
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The ugly exchanges have resulted in the DA representative opening charges of crimen injuria against Mr. Jacobs. It is claimed that the regional ANC supremo used the phrase repeatedly in a public WhatsApp group – causing McKenzie a significant amount of distress. According to the Councillor, the outbursts from Jacobs are ‘clearly against the law’: