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| Africa Subsaharan |
| Mbeki unaware of Imvume chief's ties to oil-for-food dealings |
| 2005-12-02 |
| Nov 17, 2005 Johannesburg - Deputy President Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka says the country's presidency Mlambo-Ngcuka - who did not rule out the possibility that an independent inquiry could transpire into allegations of irregular South African involvement in the oil-for-food programme - said: "People talk about these things when they want business it's the African way. Business people take chances and they don't always go and ask the permission of the person ... whose name they are going to drop. "The presidency was never asked as far as we know ... about Mr Majali having to be posing (sic) to be an adviser," said the Deputy President. Earlier, Freedom Front Plus leader Pieter Mulder asked whether South Africa would not follow the lead of other countries - such as Australia and Jordan - which had appointed official oil-for-food inquiries since the recent publication of the United Nations report pointing to alleged irregularities. Mlambo-Ngcuka said that the South African justice department had called in an international expert to help it sift through the material relating to South African alleged involvement in the kickbacks and to "help them (to) guide themselves to take the kind of action that you are talking about". Nice Try Piet old boy. They would consider what South African laws had possibly been broken by any action in Iraq. Majali is accused of receiving kickbacks from the ousted government of former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein. The questions to the Deputy President were resumed an hour late in the Assembly on Wednesday after a power outage delayed its business. |
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