Deputy president Paul Mashatile will be fined R10,000 and reprimanded for failing to declare a diamond gifted to his wife by diamond dealer and corruption accused Louis Liebenberg.
The parliamentary joint committee on ethics found that he failed to declare the gift in the confidential part of his financial and registrable interests register.
A statement issued on behalf of the co-chairpersons of the joint committee on ethics and members interests, Lusizo Makhubela and Hennie Britz, said a formal complaint against Mashatile was received on March 5 for an alleged breach of the code.
... the code requires MPs to disclose gifts received by their immediate family in the confidential part of the register, the statement reads.
Following consideration of the complaint and perusal of the confidential part of the deputy presidents disclosed interests, the committee noted that the gift in question a diamond from Liebenberg was not disclosed.