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Home affairs to brief parliament on Guptasâ€™ naturalisation

Source: Citizen, 20/06/2017

The department maintains the application to grant the controversial
family citizenship was lawful.

Parliamentâ€™s oversight committee on home affairs will be briefed this
morning by the department on the naturalisation application process of
the Gupta family by then minister Malusi Gigaba.

This follows letters revealed by the EFF last Monday showing that
Gigaba, whoâ€™s now finance minister, unduly granted the controversial
family early naturalisation on May 30, 2015, despite the departmentâ€™s
director-general rejecting the Guptasâ€™ aplication on January 22,
2015.

Gigaba confirmed that the letters were genuine during a press
conference last Tuesday and said the entire process to grant the
family citizenship had been handled by the book in terms of the
countryâ€™s laws.

He also requested the department of home affairs to provide
chronological details of how all applications by the Guptas have been
handled by the ministry from the beginning.

The EFF has indicated it would challenge the matter in court.

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