News24 | Taxpayers funded Rain Queen’s Paris trip despite AG flagging defence dept travel spend

Reported by News24 Politics · Thu 13:25

Despite the Auditor-General of South Africa flagging travel-related irregular expenditure in the Department of Defence and Military Veterans, the department allegedly flew Balobedu Queen Masalanabo Modjadji VII in business class to Paris in July.

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