Lobby group AfriForum said the decision by the National Prosecuting Authority not to prosecute ANC secretary-general
over a trip he and his family took to Dubai from December 2016 to January 2017 appears to be “irrational and wrong in law”.on Wednesday confirmed it will not prosecute Mbalula, or anyone else in the case, because there was no evidence of wrongdoing. The family holiday was paid for by Sedgars Sports, a sports clothing manufacturer, while Mbalula was South Africa’s sports minister. Sedgars Sports is owned by the Dockrat family.
AfriForum’s Private Prosecution Unit spokesperson Barry Bateman said the NPA appears to have “uncritically accepted the version provided by Mbalula that the money was not a gift”. “This is contrary to the findings of the public protector, who found after ‘having considered their submissions , I do not accept that the arrangement between them constituted a loan agreement. Had the transaction not been reported in the media, Mr. Mbalula would not have repaid the funds’,” Bateman said.In a letter to the unit confirming the NPA’s decision, Gauteng Director of Public Prosecutions Advocate Sibongile Mzinyathi provided two reasons for not pursuing the case.
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