Winde's travel donation disclosure under fire as ANC files complaint

THE ANC in the Western Cape has formally approached the Public Protector over Premier Alan Winde’s disclosure of a R51 000 travel donation linked to his trip to New York for Climate Week in September last year.

- MURRAY SWART

Leader of the Opposition Khalid Sayed handed over the complaint at the Public Protector’s Western Cape office in Wale Street yesterday, acting on behalf of the ANC caucus.

Sayed said the caucus believes Winde failed to properly declare that the Under2Coalition funded his flights. “Evidence shows that the premier has failed to disclose a R51 000 donation that he received from the Under2Co-alition, an external nongovernmental entity to attend the climate week in New York in September last year. That R51 000 was for his flights,” he said.

He stressed that the issue was not the donation itself, but the rules governing disclosure. “We don’t have a problem with him receiving this R51 000 but the rules of the legislature and the code of members’ ethics is very strict.”