Tourism Minister Lindiwe Sisulu has called for the head of SA Tourism's interim CFO for allegedly breaching ethics to pursue the controversial multimillion-rand deal with English soccer club Tottenham Hotspur.
On Wednesday evening, Sisulu's office labelled the recent resignation of three SA Tourism board members as a "ruse", saying that it distracts from what she sees as the key issue: the conduct of CFO, Johan van der Walt, "who allegedly brought ethical defects to the deal between SA Tourism and English football club Tottenham Hotspur".
Van der Walt allegedly has ties to the WWP Group, which is said to stand to be paid some £1.5 million (around R31 million) as part of the deal.