The Public Service Accountability Monitor (PSAM) has called for the immediate suspension of Eastern Cape housing minister Neo Moerane-Mamase following her arrest on Friday morning for corruption.
”Since November 2004, the PSAM has repeatedly called on Eastern Cape Premier Nosimo Balindlela to suspend then agriculture MEC Max Mamase and his wife, MEC Neo Moerane-Mamase, then MEC for social development,” Unathi Millie, PSAM’s case-monitoring programme researcher, said on Friday.
”This was amid reported allegations of having received kickbacks, through their company Quickvest54, from a Cape Town-based property developer.”
The Mamases were arrested on Friday morning by the joint anti-corruption task team on charges of corruption regarding their mansion in Bonny Doon, in East London.
It is alleged they got their house as some form of kickback for a deal involving the property developer.
They appeared in the East London Magistrate’s Court on Friday, where they were released on bail of R20 000 each. — Sapa