Former Public Protector - Thuli Madonsela said she hopes the chosen ministers for probing PPE tender corruption claims are clean themselves.
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I think for a preliminary thing it's a good thing that ministers have been brought together, I just hope the ministers themselves have not been implicated in any way," she said.
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Of course, if you're implicated you are going to make sure that everything ends in a rain dance and nothing moves forward," she said.
President Cyril Ramaphosa appointed an inter-ministerial committee to investigate the corruption claims.
Some government officials have been implicated in corrupt deals.
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