Health Minister Zweli Mkhize has again denied allegations about donations to the ANC made during his tenure as the party’s treasurer-general, as claimed by former Prasa CEO Lucky Montana, reports BusinessLIVE.
In an interview with Daily Maverick’s investigations team, Scorpio, Montana alleged that there were financial dealings between Mkhize and Angolan businesswoman Maria Gomes, who, in 2013 and 2014, received R40m from Prasa’s infamous R3.5bn Swifambo rail leasing contract.
Scorpio reported that Montana alleged that he and Mkhize regularly met with Gomes at her home in Johannesburg in the period after Prasa had awarded the contract. Mkhize, who was the ANC’s treasurer-general at the time, allegedly provided Gomes with details of bank accounts into which she was asked to deposit money for the benefit of the ANC, according to Montana.
This is not the first time Montana has made allegations against Mkhize relating to Prasa, notes BusinessLIVE . Mkhize said that he had previously issued statements on the matter refuting the allegations.
Mkhize said he also gave a detailed statement to Parliament’s Portfolio Committee on Public Enterprises in February 2018, along with a statement giving a detailed account and response to the ‘unfounded and false allegations’ by Montana’. ‘Dr Mkhize still stands by those previous statements and it therefore serves no further purpose in our view for him to be mudslinging with Mr Montana in the media instead of subjecting these allegations to a formal and independent process,’ his spokesperson Lwazi Manzi said.
She added Mkhize acknowledged that the State Capture Commission has the powers to fully investigate these matters and that he will provide whatever information and/or clarity that may be required from him as the former ANC treasurer-general.
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