Godongwana: I will step aside if NPA prosecutes
Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana has expressed his willingness to vacate his office if the National Prosecution Authority (NPA) decides to prosecute him for sexual assault.
Godongwana spoke to Jacaranda FM News on the sidelines of the Consulting Engineers South Africa (CESA) Infrastructure Indaba in Fourways on Thursday.
The minister is in hot water after an employee at a luxury hotel in the Kruger National Park lodged a complaint of sexual assault against him.
The incident allegedly occurred while he was receiving a massage in his room at the five-star Kruger Shalati lodge in Skukuza over the weekend.
“Should the NPA go ahead, the ANC policy is that I must step aside,” Godongwana said.
Godongwana has denied the claims, saying he with his wife at the time.
"As I sit here, I don’t even have a piece of paper from the police. It would be difficult for me to even refute something that I don’t know and that is where the difficulty is,” he said.
The police in Mpumalanga on Thursday said the NPA has sent the docket back to them, requesting them to obtain a statement from Godongwana.
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