Johannesburg - The premier of South Africa's richest province has been cleared of allegations of misappropriating money from the Irish donor organisation, Trocaire, by a commission of inquiry appointed by the ruling African National Congress, writes Patrick Laurence.
But the commission found that his administrative skills were deficient and that "the manner in which (he) accounted for the spending of Trocaire donor funds was flawed and insufficient". Mr Mathole Motshekga, who was elected to the leadership of the ANC in Gauteng province last year, was alleged to have enriched himself at the expense of Trocaire in the 1980s when he ran legal aid centres in South Africa.