President Cyril Ramaphosa and his economic cluster ministers are set for a grilling by MPs when they appear before the National Assembly to answer questions this week.
Mboweni will be asked whether there were transactional advisers involved in securing the loan and, if so, how much they were paid. The Special Investigating Unit is probing corruption linked to the procurement of personal protective equipment to help the country combat the spread of Covid-19, after Ramaphosa signed a proclamation authorising them to probe unlawful and improper conduct in the procurement of goods and services.
Meanwhile, MPs are set to ask employment & labour minister Thulas Nxesi on Wednesday what his plans are to ensure employers who applied for the Covid-19 relief fund don’t retrench workers soon after receiving the funding; address rising unemployment; and what action he intends taking against employers who received relief funding but had not passed it down to their employees.