Nene admits Gupta errors, begs for forgiveness

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Finance Minister Nhlanhla Nene said he was wrong to meet the Gupta family at their house and should have disclosed these encounters.

“These visits do cast a shadow on my conduct as a public office bearer,” Nene said in an emailed statement on Friday.

“I deeply regret these lapses and beg your forgiveness.”

The statement comes after Nene on Wednesday told a commission of inquiry into corruption under former President Jacob Zuma that he visited the Gupta home in the Johannesburg suburb Saxonwold four times while he was deputy minister and twice during his first stint as finance minister.


Until this week, he never disclosed these meetings and told a local broadcaster that he only encountered the Guptas in passing at public gatherings.

The Guptas are friends with Zuma and in business with his son and are implicated in allegations of graft and undue influence over government appointments and contracts. They and Zuma have denied wrongdoing.

“As soon as I became aware of the controversy swirling around the family’s business dealings, I should, subject to there being a legitimate reason for doing so, have met Guptas, at my office accompanied, as is customary, by a Ministry of Finance or National Treasury official,” Nene said in the statement.

President Cyril Ramaphosa, Zuma’s successor, reappointed Nene as finance minister in February.
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https://www.fin24.com/Economy/nene-admits-gupta-errors-begs-for-forgiveness-20181005
 
Another crooked individual. I found it odd that after apparently being fired for being such a moral upstanding public servant, he never divulged any of the temptation he declined on behalf of SA public he serves. Then while preaching austerity, goes and blows everything the handbook allows on his family. This man speaks with a forked tongue.
 
Your forgiven Nene...ONLY if you fix our ANC created national economic abortion.
 
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thechamp said:
Meeting with the Guptas is not a crime on it's own, so how exactly is he corrupt?
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No its not but it speaks volumes that he would lie about it first and now that he is forced to speak the truth now he wants forgiveness. He should have not lied to begin with.
 
Before we file this man into the same category as the Guptas and Zuma, maybe we should let the investigation play out? He has expressed remorse for attending these meetings and welcomed probes into his conduct. Up until this point, there has been no other indicators of any corruption.
 
He'd show a measure of integrity if he steps down.
 
ForceFate said:
He'd show a measure of integrity if he steps down.
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If you follow the principle of "caesar's wife must be above suspicion" then there will be no one left to govern most countries.

What else is he guilty of apart from not disclosing the meeting with Guptas? Did he personally benefit from that meeting? As @thechamp said, meeting with Guptas is not a crime on its own/
 
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