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SA: Manto heading for court?

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Original Post Date: 2007-08-14 Time: 00:00:00  Posted By: Jan

Submitted by Carla:

Johannesburg – The Health Minister “is an adult and can drink what she wants,” says the DA about claims that Manto Tshabalala-Msimang demanded whisky and wine during a stint in a Cape Town hospital.

But, added the party’s Mike Waters on Sunday, if she’d abused her position as minister by insisting on special treatment, ” steps should be taken”.

Tshabala-Msimang already has indicated that she might take legal action over a Sunday Times article alleging she demanded alcohol while she was at the Cape Town Medi-Clinic in 2005 for a shoulder operation.

It alleged that she had forced staff to buy her alcohol, often late at night. The paper said she’d also often demanded food from Woolworths.

Article ‘false’

In a brief statement released on Sunday, the health ministry labelled the article “false”.

The ministry added it would make no further comment on the matter “…as the very comments attributed to Sibani Mngadi (spokesperson for the Ministry of Health) in the Sunday Times article, are grossly misrepresented,” the statement read.

The paper reported that Mngadi had said on Saturday that at no time during the minister’s two visits to the Medi-Clinic for her shoulder operation and an infection “did she consume any alcohol at all”.

But within 45 minutes of making the statement he back-tracked, the Sunday Times reported, saying the minister had remembered that she’d drunk wine with a meal.

Waters said President Thabo Mbeki should order an investigation into the claims.

ID leader Patricia de Lille and the National Democratic Convention also said the truth should out. – Beeld / Sapa

http://www.news24.com/News24/South_Africa/Politics/0,,2-7-12_2163494,00.html