DA threatens to file complaint against Transport Minister Chikunga with Parly ethics committee

The Democratic Alliance (DA) is threatening to file a complaint to the joint parliamentary committee on ethics against Transport Minister Sindisiwe Chikunga.

The party is accusing the minister of siding with taxi operators in the violent taxi strike in the City of Cape Town last week.

This after Chikunga called on the metro to release impounded minibus taxis that had been taken off the roads for various reasons.

The DA’s parliamentary representative on transport, Chris Hunsinger, said that Chikunga had breached the code of conduct.

“She openly sided with Santaco and the taxi strikers. Her involvement was a deliberate manipulation of this sensitive issue to benefit the ANC in the forthcoming national election. Her call for the immediate release of impounded taxis was framed under the false pretext of the City of Cape Town’s amended traffic by-laws.”

-EWN

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Popular South African actor Cornet Mamabolo, who played the first Tbose Maputla recently celebrated his birthday with Skeem Saam’s Meikie, John, and Kwaito from the SABC1 soapie.

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