'Tell me what you have on me'
2003-02-21 18:26
Cape Town - Former deputy minister David Malatsi was charged with corruption on Friday following allegations that he received a kickback to approve a golf course development.
"This is the beginning of the end of the story. Now the state has to formally charge me and tell me what it is that they have on me regarding corruption, because I don't know," Malatsi said on Friday.
He handed himself over to police on Friday morning and was later charged in a magistrate's court.
"He was granted bail of R10 000 in connection with charges of corruption," said Sipho Ngwema, spokesperson for the directorate of public prosecutions.
Peter Marais, former Western Cape premier, was charged on Wednesday in connection with the alleged scandal.
The charges against the two men are linked to alleged kickbacks from a golf course development near Plettenberg Bay.
Marais resigned as the leader of South Africa's second-richest province after sex harassment allegations last year and was suspended from the province's ruling New National Party (NNP) last month after the kickback allegations surfaced.
Malatsi, who was in charge of environmental affairs and tourism in the Western Cape at the time the golf course development was approved, has also been suspended by his NNP party.
Malatsi quit President Thabo Mbeki's government when the scandal broke last month. He has maintained his innocence.