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President Ramaphosa remains silent on Nene’s future

Minister of Finance Nhlanhla Nene
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President Cyril Ramaphosa is keeping mum about the future of Finance Minister Nhlanhla Nene following his testimony at the Zondo Commission of Inquiry into State Capture that he had several meetings with members of the Gupta family in private.

The Presidency says he still has to decide on Nene’s future.

Meanwhile, the Treasury earlier confirmed that Nene will attend the IMF meeting on Wednesday  in Indonesia.

Earlier, President Ramaphosa declined to answer journalists’ questions about the position of Nene, whose future is in doubt after he admitted to meetings with the Guptas.

Ramaphosa was speaking at the launch of a new stamp bearing his image at his Tuynhuis office in Cape Town. The launch of the R4.20  stamp marks World Post Day. Ramaphosa says the Post Office continues to play an important role in the lives of people, even as technological advances are being made in communications.

“The Post Office is poised to deliver new goods new services as it moves on and I’ve no doubt that as it moves on as it creates new services it will also be creating new jobs because we are now in that situation where we’ve got in and everyone and society to talk no longer about lamenting complaints about lack of jobs and all that.”

Meanwhile, the Public Protector’s office has confirmed that it will look into a request by the Democratic Alliance to investigate  Minister of Finance Nhlanhla Nene. The party wants Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane to determine whether Nene breached the executive code of ethics and exposed himself to a conflict between his official responsibilities and private interests when he was deputy finance minister and later finance minister

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