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SA minister: I’ve never visited Switzerland, but I’ve been to Geneva
By Nahashon MusunguFebruary 23rd, 2020 1 min read
A South African minister has become the butt of jokes on social media after she insisted on never having set foot in Switzerland, but in the same sentence, conceding she “only visited Geneva”.
Geneva is Switzerland’s most populated city, for those at the back.
Communications Minister Stella Ndabeni-Abrahams delivered the gaffe in an interview with eNCA while responding to a question on whether she used tax-payers money to fly herself and her husband, Thato Abrahams, to Switzerland to celebrate their wedding anniversary.
“What do you think?” she responded in an angry tone.
“I have said on this matter that I have never been to Switzerland, my husband has never been to Switzerland. We went to Geneva and New York to do the work we needed to do.”
Concentrate on the gaffe
She also accused the media of running a smear campaign against her but most of those who have watched the interview appeared to concentrate on the gaffe.
By Nahashon MusunguFebruary 23rd, 2020 1 min read
A South African minister has become the butt of jokes on social media after she insisted on never having set foot in Switzerland, but in the same sentence, conceding she “only visited Geneva”.
Geneva is Switzerland’s most populated city, for those at the back.
Communications Minister Stella Ndabeni-Abrahams delivered the gaffe in an interview with eNCA while responding to a question on whether she used tax-payers money to fly herself and her husband, Thato Abrahams, to Switzerland to celebrate their wedding anniversary.
“What do you think?” she responded in an angry tone.
“I have said on this matter that I have never been to Switzerland, my husband has never been to Switzerland. We went to Geneva and New York to do the work we needed to do.”
Concentrate on the gaffe
She also accused the media of running a smear campaign against her but most of those who have watched the interview appeared to concentrate on the gaffe.
