https://www.miningweekly.com

Jovial Zwane calls in sick for State capture meeting

Mineral Resources Minister Mosebenzi Zwane

Mineral Resources Minister Mosebenzi Zwane

Photo by Duane Daws

29th November 2017

By: News24Wire

  

Font size: - +

A jovial and joking Mosebenzi Zwane on Tuesday evening became an ill Minister of Mineral Resources on Wednesday morning.

Zwane was at a “surprise” African National Congress (ANC) Free State provincial general council on Tuesday evening, where News24 saw him joking with ANC comrades.

The provincial general council meeting saw the ANC in the province officially nominate former African Union Commission chairperson Dr Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma as its preferred candidate to become the ANC president.

However, Zwane had been set to meet the portfolio committee on mineral resources on Tuesday to respond to State capture allegations.

He again did not appear on Wednesday and the committee said they had received a sick note informing them that the minister could not appear.

The committee, which wanted to engage with the minister before working out how to proceed with State capture allegations, will not be able to meet Zwane until next year as a result of his no-show.

Committee chairperson Sahlulele Luzipo said they will write to Zwane to invite him to meet with the committee on January 24, 2018. If he does not arrive then or a week thereafter should he have a conflicting engagement, the committee will meet to decide whether they should subpoena him.

Edited by News24Wire

Comments

Showroom

Actom image
Actom

Your one-stop global energy-solution partner

VISIT SHOWROOM 
Booyco Electronics
Booyco Electronics

Booyco Electronics, South African pioneer of Proximity Detection Systems, offers safety solutions for underground and surface mining, quarrying,...

VISIT SHOWROOM 

Latest Multimedia

sponsored by

Hyphen, Eva mine, ferrochrome price make headlines
Hyphen, Eva mine, ferrochrome price make headlines
27th March 2024
Resources Watch
Resources Watch
27th March 2024

Option 1 (equivalent of R125 a month):

Receive a weekly copy of Creamer Media's Engineering News & Mining Weekly magazine
(print copy for those in South Africa and e-magazine for those outside of South Africa)
Receive daily email newsletters
Access to full search results
Access archive of magazine back copies
Access to Projects in Progress
Access to ONE Research Report of your choice in PDF format

Option 2 (equivalent of R375 a month):

All benefits from Option 1
PLUS
Access to Creamer Media's Research Channel Africa for ALL Research Reports, in PDF format, on various industrial and mining sectors including Electricity; Water; Energy Transition; Hydrogen; Roads, Rail and Ports; Coal; Gold; Platinum; Battery Metals; etc.

Already a subscriber?

Forgotten your password?

MAGAZINE & ONLINE

SUBSCRIBE

RESEARCH CHANNEL AFRICA

SUBSCRIBE

CORPORATE PACKAGES

CLICK FOR A QUOTATION







sq:0.096 0.13s - 88pq - 2rq
Subscribe Now