The Minister has been called upon to explain the expulsion of the Rwandan diplomats.(SABC)
The Democratic Alliance (DA) wants Department of International Relations and Cooperation (Dirco) Minister Maite Nkoana-Mashabane to urgently address Parliament on the apparent diplomatic row between South Africa and Rwanda.
The DA wants the South African government to explain the circumstances surrounding its diplomatic row with Rwanda.
This follows reports that Rwanda expelled six South African diplomats, after Pretoria gave three Rwandan officials 72 hours to leave the country.
South Africa has still not explained the expulsion of the diplomats.
The diplomatic fallout between South Africa and Rwanda follows an apparent row over the attempted murder of an exiled former Rwandan general Faustin Kayumba Nyamwasa in Johannesburg.
Rwanda has accused South Africa of harbouring terrorists.
It is alleged that the three Rwandan diplomats were involved in several assassination attempts on Nyamwasa.
Dirco has refused to comment on this but the DA’s Justus de Goede believes the public deserves an explanation from Minister Maite Nkoana-Mashabane
“We need to know exactly what it is going on and we think the minister should give an explanation,” says de Goede.
Former Rwandan spy chief Patrick Karegeya was found strangled in a Sandton hotel on New Year’s Eve last year.
Source: sabc.co.za
