AfriForum vows to prosecute Mbalula for Dubai trip of more than R500k

Lobby group AfriForum said it will not stop in its pursuit to have the former sports minister, Fikile Mbalula, prosecuted for a Dubai vacation that a government service provider sponsored.

In 2016, Mbalula took his family on a trip to the United Arab Emirates that cost R680,000. 
 
When news of the trip broke and that Mbalula had not paid the travel agency, a company that’s a subsidiary of Sedgars Sports settled about R300,000 of the bill. 
 
At the time, Sedgars Sports was a service provider to the SA Sports Federation and South African Sports Confederation and Olympic Committee (SASCOC).

During a briefing at AfriForum’s headquarters in Centurion on Wednesday, its private prosecutions unit released a dossier on Mbalula, which it has sent to the new head of the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA).

The unit’s head, Gerrie Nel, said: “We wrote to them indicating there is a deliberate misunderstanding of corruption that there was a deliberate failure to ensure there was a completed investigation.”