DA to report van Rooyen to the Public Protector for misleading Parliament
30 October 2016
In a reply to a DA Parliamentary question, Minister of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (CoGTA), Des van Rooyen, denied visiting the Gupta’s compound in Saxonwold in the run up to his disastrous appointment as Finance Minister.
Yet, reports today indicate that van Rooyen met with the Gupta’s at their residence not once but seven times.
Clearly he was misleading in his reply and in so doing he has contravened the Executive Ethics Code.
Section 2.3 (a) of the Executives Ethics Code states that “Members of the Executive may not (a) wilfully mislead the legislature to which they are accountable”