#Jetgate: Mapisa-Nqakula must provide minutes of meeting with Zim Minister of Defence
5 October 2020
The Democratic Alliance (DA) calls on the Minister of Defence and Military Veterans, Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula, to produce the minutes of the meeting between her and her Zimbabwean counterpart, the Minister of Defence and War Veterans Affairs, Opah Muchinguri-Kashiri, on 9 September 2020 in Zimbabwe.
We will also submit parliamentary questions in this regard and request the information via the Promotion of Access to Information Act (PAIA).
The DA has serious reservations over the meeting and whether it even took place at all. We believe that the minutes of this meeting will reveal what we all suspect – that this meeting was nothing more than a ruse by the Minister to hide the fact that the whole trip to Zimbabwe was solely in service to ANC politics and had nothing to do with the business of government.
This is supported by reports that an official of the Zimbabwe Aviation Authority confirmed to The Star newspaper that “the reception at the airport was prepared for ‘ANC guests’ and not the minister of defence.”