Department of Social Development confirms its spokesperson is under investigation [SOUND]

# The Department of Social Development Director-General, Peter Netshipale, says the suspension of Communications Director, Lumka Oliphant, is not related to her recent allegations on social media. She alleged that her suspension is because minister Sisisi Tolashe believes she leaked information to the Sunday Times newspaper. The newspaper published an exposé on the department’s lavish three-million-rand spend on sending six delegates to a New York workshop. Netshipale told the SABC that Oliphant is under investigation: