Steenhuisen said he’d been left little choice but to take this step after he delivered a dossier of the complaints to the Union Buildings 10 days ago, urging President Cyril Ramaphosa to act against his deputy before SONA.
CAPE TOWN - Democratic Alliance leader John Steenhuisen on Monday laid corruption complaints against Deputy President Paul Mashatile in relation to a slew of dodgy transactions over a number of years dating back to his time as a Gauteng MEC.
Steenhuisen said he’d been left little choice but to take this step after he delivered a dossier of the complaints to the Union Buildings ten days ago, urging President Cyril Ramaphosa to act against his deputy before the State of the Nation Address.
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