Tourism Minister Patricia de Lille intends to collaborate with the Special Investigating Unit SIU to declare as delinquent the former SA Tourism Board members implicated in the R1 billion US58 million Tottenham Hotspur sponsorship controversy in 2023.
On Monday, November 24, President Cyril Ramaphosa authorised a SIU investigation , which De Lille says she requested, into allegations of serious maladministration and improper conduct at SA Tourism, linked to media buying contracts and payment for services not rendered.
Speaking ahead of a Tourism Portfolio Committee meeting on Tuesday, November 25, De Lille said the Department of Tourism had already contracted two SIU investigators shortly after she took office in March 2023.