“These purchases were an error of judgement on my part for which I take
full responsibility and would want to apologise profusely,” he said.
Mmemezi, 57, had served in the Gauteng provincial government for 18 months.
McDonald’s operations in South
Africa are owned by Cyril Ramaphosa, the former trade unionist who
took part in the negotiations that saw the end of apartheid and is now a top
businessman.
The fast food giant said in May the owner-operator “was empathetic to the
needs of a friend, the artist” by offering him to use his restaurant’s
credit card facility to process the transaction.
The artist did not have facilities to receive card payments.
“In hindsight, the owner-operator agrees that this was an innocent error
of judgment,” McDonald’s said.
Source: AFP
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