Durban- An ANC pre-election youth beach party, sponsored by wealthy Durban housing contractor Shauwn Mpisane, has irked the DA which wants the public protector to investigate. The DA claimed this was proof that the ruling party was using government tender beneficiaries to fund their election campaign.
But ANC KZN spokesman, Senzo Mkhize, on Monday accused the DA of intentionally misleading the public, saying no beneficiary was compelled by the party to support it. “It is not true that money is being channelled into the ANC. All parties have their events with business… there is nothing wrong with working with them (the Mpisanes),” he said.
“They have been to court and they have been cleared.”
He said Mpisane was not the only one funding the event, but that other funders had asked to remain anonymous.
Mpisane, who has amassed a fortune through the low-cost housing contracts her company, Zikhulise Cleaning & Transport, has won, on Monday night denied there was anything untoward.
She lashed out at the DA amid accusations by the party that she was sponsoring this weekend’s event in Durban in return for securing housing contracts in the city.
“The DA’s criticism is without an ounce of truth. If they bothered to examine the facts and follow my (fraud and corruption) trial over three years they would have known that my business was not built on so-called political connections but on solid experience and my company’s expertise in the housing sector,” Mpisane said.
In January all the charges against her were dropped.
Mpisane said she welcomed an intervention by the public protector and challenged the DA to go to court to prove that she secured contracts through corrupt means or that her company was being favoured in city housing contracts. ….
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