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News24 reports that SA Tourism is to launch an investigation to find the person who blew the whistle on its proposed sponsorship deal with Tottenham Hotspur.
Last Wednesday, Daily Maverick broke the news of SA Tourism's proposed three-year deal with Spurs, as the club from North London is known, which would reportedly be worth about R900 million. The deal would start at the beginning of the 2023-2024 season and conclude at the end of the 2026-2027 season. In exchange, SA Tourism would receive kit branding, interview backdrop branding, match-day advertising, partnership announcements, training camps in SA, and free access to tickets and stadium hospitality. On Wednesday, SA Tourism announced that its board would be investigating the leaking of the discussions about the controversial deal to the media. Meantime, Tourism Minister Lindiwe Sisulu has called for the head of the board’s interim CFO for allegedly breaching ethics to pursue the controversial multimillion-rand deal with Spurs. On Wednesday, Sisulu's office labelled the recent resignation of three SA Tourism board members as a "ruse", saying that it distracted from what she saw as the key issue, namely the conduct of CFO, Johan van der Walt, "who allegedly brought ethical defects to the deal”. Van der Walt allegedly has ties to the WWP Group, which is said to stand to be paid around R31 million as part of the deal. Sisulu's office said: "The board made it very clear that the CFO had failed to declare his interests in three board meetings, concealing his special relationship with one of the companies involved in the deal." Sisulu ordered a fully-fledged forensic investigation into "this serious conflict of interest". SA Tourism will also probe the allegations around Van der Walt. Meantime, the Portfolio Committee on Tourism wants the deal to be stopped immediately.
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Jan Gerber at News24 (subscriber access only)
- Lees ook, SA Toerisme wil Tottenham-‘oopvlekker’ ondersoek, by Maroela Media
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