Sacked Shiceka, Mahlangu-Nkabinde still being paid: report

Sacked ministers Sicelo Shiceka and Gwen Mahlangu-Nkabinde are still earning R840 000-a-year salaries as ANC MPs, according to a report.

ANC caucus spokesman Moloto Mothapo told Beeld newspaper that neither the former cooperative governance and traditional affairs minister nor the ex-public works minister had resigned as members of parliament.

President Jacob Zuma sacked them on October 24.

Both still earned salaries as ANC MPs of R840 000 a year and also enjoyed privileges such as 48 paid-for inland business class plane tickets a year and 24 plane tickets for their spouses.

Shiceka and Mahlangu-Nkabinde have been implicated in wrongdoing by public protector Thuli Madonsela.

Mahlangu-Nkabinde's decision to allow two controversial building leases valued at R1.6-billion to go ahead, despite tender procedures not being followed and legal advice to the contrary amounted to maladministration, according to a finding by Madonsela.

In a separate report on Shiceka, Madonsela found he had racked up more than R1-million in travel costs for himself, his staff and friends in violation of the executive ethics code.

This included a trip to Switzerland to see a girlfriend jailed on drug-related charges.

Shiceka denied any wrongdoing and vowed to go to court to contest Madonsela's findings.