JOHANNESSBURG - It hasn’t been a good week for Deputy President, Paul Mashatile.
Parliament's Joint Committee on Ethics and Members’ Interests has just recommended that he be slapped with a ten thousand rand fine, for failing to declare a gift.
The Committee also recommends that the National Assembly, reprimand him.
Mashatile is accused of failing to declare a gift to his wife, in the confidential part of his financial and registrable interests register.
The diamond was a gift from controversial diamond dealer, Louis Liebenberg.