267:. However, in September 2009, he also accepted a plea bargain, in terms of which he pled guilty to theft and was fined R50,000 or five years' imprisonment, in addition to a mandatory one-year prison sentence conditionally suspended for five years. He admitted that he had wrongly used parliamentary travel vouchers – designated only for air-travel expenses – for R92,000 in car rentals and R20,000 in hotel accommodation.
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to Lurco Coal, a private company, in late 2015. Booi did not dispute that he had done the consulting work, but he argued that parliamentary rules did not require him to disclose the contract in 2016 and denied that there was any possible
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and later through the ANC underground; he was detained for his political activities. His brother is
Fumanekile "Fatty" Booi, who was also active in the ANC during apartheid and who later became a prominent figure in the
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Parliament's
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The ANC supported Sisulu and, on 18 November 2010, announced that it would instruct its caucus to vote to remove Booi as committee chairperson. ANC Deputy
Secretary-General
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withdrew her name. During the legislative term that followed, Booi served as the ANC's
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