Transport Minister S’bu Ndebele is under pressure to return a luxury Mercedes Benz he received from a company which holds multi-million rand contracts with his new department.
Vukuzakhe Contractors gave the former KwaZulu-Natal premier the vehicle (worth an estimated R1.1 million), as well as a herd of cattle, to honour him for creating a platform for small contractors.
Ndebele says the gift does not amount to a conflict of interest because it was arranged before he was appointed Transport minister.
He also says h told President Jacob Zuma about the car and is waiting to hear if he can keep it.
The Democratic Alliance has called on Ndebele to return the car.
Head of IDASA’s Political Information and Monitoring Service Judith February also thinks he should do so.
“I think the minister of transport needs to return the vehicle. I think the perception that this creates of a conflict of interests and is untenable and it does raise serious issues around the implementation of the Executive Ethics Code,” said February.
"He needed to get, in terms of the code, prior permission from the president to in fact accept the gift."
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