Parliament adopts Oilgate report

According to a report in The Witness, the DA has called for the report – which has been criticised by opposition parties as a whitewash – to be debated, as soon as possible in the National Assembly, while the Freedom Front Plus has vowed not to rest until taxpayers have been compensated for ‘this injustice’. Despite attempts by opposition parties to convince it to reject the report, the committee, chaired by Nathi Mthethwa, made use of its ANC majority to push through the adoption of the report, which found that state-owned oil company PetroSA did nothing wrong in making a R15m advance payment to the black-empowerment company Imvume. A total of R11m of that money ended up in the bank account of the ANC. Full report in The Witness