Mbaks can run, not hide

POLICE Minister Fikile Mbalula has denied that he received R300 000 towards his 2015 family holiday in Dubai, allegedly paid by Sedgars Sports. He was then the minister of sport and the company supplied the South African Sports Confederation and Olympic Committee with clothing.

But earlier this year it was reported that in 2015, Thabo “Tbo Touch” Molefe allegedly channelled R1million to this minister from money coming from Wandile Bozwana.

Mbalula and Molefe then went together to watch the fight between Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao in Las Vegas.

When Mbalula was ANC Youth League president, an amount of R469-million was given by the state to the Anton Lembede Business Enterprise. This structure failed to account for it. As in the cases of the Nelson Mandela memorial service and the repatriation of the remains of John Beaver Marks and Moses Kotane, the name of Lembede was used for the lifestyle of comrades.

No one was ever charged with embezzlement in relation to the funds given to Lembede Enterprise. The former Buffalo City mayor and friends were charged after using Madiba’s name to get into the public coffers.

There is mischief around the nuclear deal with Russia and the bones and souls of these outstanding communists appear to have been used to camouflage corruption.

Many have forgotten that it was Minister Mbalula who was the first to expose the involvement of the Guptas in the cabinet.

City Press reported that he literally cried in an ANC national executive committee meeting when he narrated the involvement of the Guptas in the cabinet.

But now he appears to be a staunch ally of the Guptas and was used by President Jacob Zuma to flush out, from the Hawks, Berning Mthandazo Ntlemeza because his “usefulness to President Zuma had expired”.

Some truly believe that Minister Mbalula is a genuine combatant against crime, including corruption, money laundering and racketeering. The revelations suggest the opposite. Is he any cleaner than many others now holidaying in Dubai, such as Duduzani Zuma, Mosebenzi Zwane, Ayanda Dlodlo, Fana Hlongwane? Mbaks can run and run but he cannot hide. I now understand why he supported the dissolution of the Scorpions and never defended former president Thabo Mbeki, Bulelani Ngcuka, Vusi Pikoli, Thuli Madonsela or the judiciary. — Siyanda Mhlongo, KwaDukuza