The DA will approach the Chairperson of the Portfolio Committee on Sport and Recreation to summon the Minister of Sports and Recreation, Fikile Mbalula, to Parliament to account for his department's expenditure of almost half a million Rand on Floyd Mayweather's visit to South Africa in 2014 despite his initial claims that the taxpayer did not foot the bill for the trip.
The revelations in documents from Netwerk24's Promotion of Access to Information Act (PAIA) show that Mbalula's department spent more than R475 950 on advertisements and marketing at a gala function during Mayweather's visit.
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