Leader of the Opposition Khalid Sayed hands over a complaint to the Public Protector’s Western Cape office, alleging Premier Alan Winde failed to properly disclose a R51 000 travel donation. The ANC in the Western Cape has formally approached the Public Protector over Premier Alan Winde’s disclosure of a R51 000 travel donation linked to his trip to New York for Climate Week in September last year. Leader of the Opposition Khalid Sayed handed over the complaint at the Public Protector’s Western Cape office in Wale Street on Wednesday morning, acting on behalf of the ANC caucus.
Sayed said the caucus believes Winde failed to properly declare that the Under2Coalition funded his flights. “We believe and evidence shows that the premier has failed to disclose a R51 000 donation that he received from the Under2Coalition, an external non-governmental entity to attend the climate week in New York in September last year. That R51 000 was for his flights,” he said.
He stressed that the issue was not the donation itself, but the rules governing disclosure. “We don’t have a problem with him receiving this R51 000 but the rules of the legislature and the code of members’ ethics is very strict.” Sayed said the ANC had first taken the matter through the legislature by submitting a complaint to the registrar. “We followed the parliamentary process and submitted a complaint to the registrar for the conduct committee,” he said.
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He added that they escalated the matter because “the Executive Members Ethics Code (EMEC) requires that to investigate alleged breaches and report them to the president. We are hopeful that they will be reported to the president and that the necessary sanction is imposed.”
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