{"id":11397,"date":"2010-02-05T09:27:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-05T07:27:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-02-05T09:27:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-05T07:27:00","slug":"cope-to-query-nyanda-businesses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/11397-cope-to-query-nyanda-businesses.html","title":{"rendered":"Cope to query Nyanda businesses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The party alleged his business interests were in conflict with Section 96 of the Constitution and Section 2 of the Executive Members&#8217; Ethics Act.<\/p>\n<p>This meant he could not undertake any other paid work, expose himself to a conflict of private and official interests, use his position to enrich himself, or act in a way that could compromise the credibility of government.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Cope believes that Gen. Nyanda is in breach of the act in respect of circumstances and elements surrounding contracts between &nbsp;his GNS Security Company and Transnet Freight Rail, and also other government departments,&#8221; MP Juli Killian said.<\/p>\n<p>She did not accept his explanation that he was no longer involved with the companies.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Fact of the matter is that he remains a direct financial beneficiary of profits derived from the contracts between his personal interests and government departments and parastatals,&#8221; she &nbsp;alleged.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php?215326-Cope-to-query-Nyanda-business&amp;p=3594016\"><strong>Cope to query Nyanda businesses<\/strong><\/a> &#8211; Discussion<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Congress of the People intends asking the Public Protector to investigate Communications Minister Siphiwe Nyanda&#039;s business interests, a party spokeswoman said on Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11397"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11397\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}