South Africa: ANC Admit’s ‘OilGate’ Affair
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Monday, 03 August 2009 |
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The ANC's reported acknowledgement that it paid back the R11-million
donation by Imvume Management amounts to nothing less than an
"admission of guilt", the Freedom Front Plus said.
FF Plus spokesperson Willie Spies asked in a statement that if there
had been nothing untoward about the PetroSA advance to Imvume and the
subsequent donation to the ANC, "why did the ANC find it necessary to
repay the donation? The irony is that the biggest loser in the entire
debacle is the taxpayer, since Imvume is still R13-million in arrears
with its repayment of the 'advance' to PetroSA," he said. "It is
now critical that decisive action be taken to bring Imvume Management
and its director Sandi Majali to justice."
Spies said the SA Police Service commercial branch had informed the FF
Plus last week that it was re-opening its investigation into the
party's charges of fraud against Majali and his company, pursuant to a
request by the National Prosecuting Authority. The party laid the
charges in August 2005.
In December 2003, Imvume channelled taxpayers' money from state oil
company PetroSA to fund the then cash-strapped ANC's election kitty, he
said. The Cape Argus reported on Tuesday that outgoing ANC
treasurer-general Mendi Msimang said in the ANC's financial report
tabled at its conference in Polokwane, that the ANC had repaid the
money in two instalments in May and June 2005. The Imvume
donation was part of a R15-million advance payment from PetroSA to
Imvume.
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