Home affairs to brief parliament on Guptas’ naturalisation
The department maintains the application to grant the controversial family citizenship was lawful.
Ajay and Atul Gupta, and Duduzane Zuma. Picture: Gallo Images
Parliament’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, who’s now finance minister, unduly granted the controversial family early naturalisation on May 30, 2015, despite the department’s director-general rejecting the Guptas’ application 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 country’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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