ANC’s chief whip Pemmy Majodina says son’s PPE deal involvement is regrettable 18 April 2021 - 12:49 Image: Sunday Times/Esa Alexander
ANC chief whip Pemmy Majodina on Sunday said she is willing to subject herself to parliament’s ethics committee to explain her son’s involvement in an ANC caucus PPE procurement deal which supplied thermometers worth R52,500 to party constituency offices in January.
In a statement, Majodina, via her spokesperson Nomfanelo Kota, said she “regrets the involvement of her son Mkhonto weSizwe Majodina in the PPE caucus procurement deal”.
“It is the intention of the chief whip to subject herself to a parliamentary ethics probe if and when called upon to do so to clear perceptions of any flouting of regulations,” said Kota.
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English actor Damian Lewis has written a heartfelt tribute to his wife, actress Helen McCrory, who died on Friday of cancer at the age of 52.
In an op-ed for
Sunday Times published today, Lewis referred to his wife of 13 years as “royalty”. On a weekend when the papers, rightly, will be paying their respects to the Duke of Edinburgh, thousands of others around the world have been remembering m’Duchess, my Little One, royalty in her own right, he wrote, praising her for her fearlessness, wit, curiosity, talent and beauty .
“When I say ‘royalty’, I am of course referring to the esteem in which Helen is held in our business. Her nickname to many was Dame Helen.
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