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City Press reports that the labour court on Friday reinstated Mpumalanga regional manager in the Department of Mineral Resources, Aubrey Tshivhandekano, who had been fired by former mineral resources minister Mosebenzi Zwane last month.
The axing took place at the premises of the Gupta-owned Tegeta Resources mine where Tshivhandekano had arrived to issue a noncompliance notice. Judge Robert Lagrange said Tshivhandekano’s dismissal on 15 February outside the Gupta mine in Koornfontein in Mpumalanga was “unlawful and void” and should be set aside. He ordered new Minister of Mineral Resources Gwede Mantashe and his director-general Advocate Thabo Mokoena to “reinstate the applicant to the position he had before his dismissal and to allow him to continue his duties and responsibilities in that capacity”. Tshivhandekano claimed in court papers that he was “ambushed” while carrying out his functions at the Koornfontein coal mine by a person from Zwane’s office, Steven Hlongwane, “who handed to me what purported to be a dismissal letter”. In April 2017 Tshivhandekano was among the regional managers who took the department to court to stop Mokoena from transferring them from their positions to other parts of the country.
- Read this report by Setumo Stone in full at City Press
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