Minister's mystery trip: angry father hits back

[caption id="attachment_107806" align="aligncenter" width="300"] -NOSIVIWE MAPISA-NQAKULA[/caption]

Defence Minister Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula's late son was romantically involved with the Burundi woman she smuggled into South Africa on an air force jet‚ the newspaper reported on its front page.

In an exclusive interview with the Sunday Times this week businessman Laurent Wege claimed his daughter Michelle was planning to marry Chumani‚ who was stabbed to death in October last year.

This claim was supported by four other sources‚ two of them close to the minister's family.

Wege also lifted the lid on a business relationship with the minister gone sour‚ and denied Mapisa-Nqakula's claims that she had "rescued" Michelle from being abused by him‚ contradicting the reasons Mapisa-Nqakula gave the Sunday Times Times last week‚ the newspaper said.