JOHANNESSBURG - It hasnt been a good week for Deputy President, Paul Mashatile.

Parliament's Joint Committee on Ethics and  Members Interests has just recommended that he be slapped with a ten thousand rand fine, for failing to declare a gift.

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The Committee also recommends that the National Assembly, reprimand him.

Mashatile is accused of failing to declare a gift to his wife, in the confidential part of his financial and registrable interests register.

The diamond was a gift from controversial diamond dealer, Louis Liebenberg.