Fikile Mbalula confessed that members of the Gupta family told him he would be appointed as a cabinet minister.
"My recollection is that when it came to the opportunity for Mbalula to speak in that meeting‚ he became very emotional. In the exchange of open letters among ourselves‚ I refer to his weeping ... He said he was called to Saxonwold to be told by the Guptas .
"What Mbalula said was that when he was called to Saxonwold he went there and there he was told he was going to be appointed as minister of sports and recreation. He was first very excited about making it into cabinet‚ but in retrospect it should never have been the Guptas or anybody else who told him that. It was the prerogative of the president and that prerogative had been violated in the way the information was shared.
"I think the fact that there's an acknowledgement that ahead of Mbalula's appointment there was a discussion about the fact that he would assume a certain position ... how did he come by that knowledge is an important question.. "I’d like him to be here; I’d like him to give up the hiding place in Dubai and be here‚" Manuel said.
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