{"id":31052,"date":"2013-02-03T10:37:29","date_gmt":"2013-02-03T08:37:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=31052"},"modified":"2013-02-04T08:55:23","modified_gmt":"2013-02-04T06:55:23","slug":"dina-pules-boyfriend-paid-r6-million-for-4-days-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/31052\/dina-pules-boyfriend-paid-r6-million-for-4-days-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Dina Pule’s boyfriend paid R6 million for 4 days: report"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Sunday Times reported that communications minister Dina Pule<\/a>\u2019s boyfriend, Phosane Mngqibisa<\/a> was paid R6-million in management fees for the 2012 ICT Indaba<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The report further suggests that the conference organisers were forced by the Department of Communications (DoC<\/a>) to hire Mngqibisa.<\/p>\n

The Sunday Times cited two forensic documents which showed that Mngqibisa was not really involved in the organisation of the event, despite being paid R6-million.<\/p>\n

News emerged last year that the DoC pressured Telkom<\/a>, MTN<\/a> and Vodacom<\/a> to sponsor the event. These sponsorships amounted to R25.7-million.<\/p>\n

According to the Sunday Times report last year, Mngqibisa withdrew millions from event sponsorships within days after the money was paid.<\/p>\n

The Sunday Times reported that Mngqibisa was \u201cvery evasive when questioned on how he arrived at the amount of R6-million as a management fee\u201d.<\/p>\n

More ICT Indaba and Dina Pule stories<\/h2>\n

How not to blow R102 million<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Communications minister Dina Pule accused of nepotism<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

DoC speaks about ICT Indaba finances<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Dina Pule investigation must proceed with haste: DA<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

So many questions, so few answers<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A newspaper report suggests that Dina Pule\u2019s boyfriend was paid a R6-million management fee for the ICT Indaba in 2012<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":21209,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[1087,1083,26],"class_list":["post-31052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-government","tag-department-of-communications","tag-dina-pule","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31052"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31052\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31080,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31052\/revisions\/31080"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}