No conflict of interest in Zille's son's involvement in education project - Angie Motshekga
20 December 2018
There was no conflict of interest in Western Cape Premier Helen Zille offering assistance to an educational workshop programme involving her son in 2014, says Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga.
The minister came out in support of Zille following a finding by Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane on Wednesday that Zille had violated the executive members' ethics code.
ANC member of the Western Cape legislature Cameron Dugmore laid a complaint with the Public Protector in 2017, claiming that Zille had breached the provincial government's code of ethics by influencing officials to allow her son, Paul Maree, access to tablets purchased by the Western Cape Department of Education.
Mkhwebane noted that, while the project benefitted many pupils, the premier had "exposed herself to a risk of a conflict of interest between her official responsibilities and her private interests".