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Home Affairs Dept ordered to appear in Parly over Guptas SA citizenship

Source: ENCA, 17/06/2017

JOHANNESBURG - Parliaments portfolio committee on home affairs has
ordered the Home Affairs Department to appear before it and provide
details around the naturalisation of the Gupta family.

Home Affairs officials will appear before the committee on Tuesday
following Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) leader Julius Malemas
release of a letter from the department turning down the Guptas
request for citizenship.

Another letter Malema released came from Finance Minister Malusi
Gigaba who was previously home affairs minister waiving the
residential requirements for citizenship.

The chairperson of the portfolio Lemias Mashile says they want details
from the department about the EFFs claims.

We have requested the department to come and brief us on what
happened. We want to know what the department knows so that we can
understand the background on this matter.

Mashile says the department is expected to explain as to how the Gupta
families application got in to the hands of the minister.

We will only have details after Tuesday on what they have in their
records. Remember the minister does not receive papers someone has to
take it to him. We want to know what convinced the minister to sign or
not to sign.

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