ANC believes DA's criminal complaint against Nkabane part of its grievance over Whitfield's axing
On Tuesday, the DA laid a criminal complaint against Nkabane at the Cape Town Central police station.
DA federal chairperson Helen Zille outside the Cape Town Police Station on 1 July 2025, ahead of laying criminal charges against Higher Education Minister Nobuhle Nkabane. Picture: Lindsay Dentlinger /EWN
JOHANNESBURG - The African National Congress (ANC) said it believed that the criminal complaint the Democratic Alliance (DA) laid against Higher Education Minister Nobuhle Nkabane was part of the party's public campaign to challenge the axing of DA Member of Parliament, Andrew Whitfield.
On Tuesday, the DA laid a criminal complaint against Nkabane at the Cape Town Central Police Station.
Nkabane is alleged to have lied to the higher education portfolio committee about her questionable appointments to the Sector Education and Training Board (SETA) board.
Last week, President Cyril Ramaphosa dismissed Whitfield as a deputy minister for an overseas trip he did not obtain presidential approval for.
On the Mandy Weiner Show on Tuesday, ANC chief whip Mdumiseni Ntuli said that several meetings had been held to investigate Nkabane's conduct.
"And, obviously, in the course of those engagements, it became clear to me that the minister is going to run into major difficulties to justify the decision she has taken, given the composition of the members of the panel she appointed. So, I was quite clear that minister, what this presents is a major challenge to you when it is scrutinised by the portfolio committee on higher education and training."
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