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The Pretoria high court sets aside department of international relations and cooperation's decision to make the humanitarian donation to Cuba

International relations and co-operation minister Naledi Pandor. File photo. Image: Alon Skuy Tensions between international relations minister Naledi Pandor and the parliamentary committee she accounts to escalated on Thursday with at least one ANC MP accusing the minister of arrogance. Pandor appeared before the National Assembly's portfolio committee on international relations on Thursday to talk about progress made on the implementation of the portfolio committee’s oversight report to New York. She appeared before an already aggrieved committee after she submitted an a...

In her opening remarks to a meeting of the committee on Wednesday, committee chairperson Tandi Mahambehlala said it was not acceptable for the committee to hear through media reports of Mahoai's precautionary suspension, especially when it was claimed that such action was taken as a result of the committee's recommendations. The committee drafted a report last March after its December 2019 oversight visit to New York, where it found that Dirco had paid R118m for an abandoned dilapidated building instead of a vacant piece of land which was meant to be used to build office and residential accom...