Pule‚ assisted by African National Congress (ANC) MP and advocate Mike Masutha has been sitting before the multiparty panel of nine other MPs for the past two days.
Panel chairman Ben Turok said on Friday afternoon, 3 May 2013, that he expected the hearings‚ which are being held in camera‚ to go on for longer than anticipated.
"A number of people have been invited to give testimony. We are examining some of the allegations made in the media in order to check if there is any substance to them or not. We have not made any finding and we are doing a thorough job‚" he said.
Pule has been hauled before the ethics committee following media allegations over the monies disappearing and the involvement of Phosane Mngqibisa‚ allegedly her romantic partner‚ in the ICT Indaba.
That conference held in June at the Cape Town International Convention Centre was billed by the Department of Communications as the first gathering of its kind.
Telkom‚ MTN and Vodacom sponsored the event with the department also contributing some money.
Turok said the panel had heard testimony from four people by the end of Friday and that another three people were expected to still appear.
"Members (of the panel) are participating fully and I think we will get the truth eventually‚" he said.
Once the panel has discussed what it has heard‚ it will write a report that will be given to the Speaker of the National Assembly Max Sisulu and then it will be made public.
Turok could not say how long this may take.
Disciplinary hearings of MPs are always held behind closed doors in terms of the Constitution and the rules of Parliament.
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