The Citizen reports that Tshwane executive mayor Steven Mokgalapa has been accused of appointing two unqualified directors in senior, highly paid positions.
According to an internal memo sent to the metro’s information technology department, the directors were each appointed as youth development directors for the metro on 10 June. They will apparently each earn almost R1 million per annum, but barely meet the requirements for the position, which was never advertised. As youth development directors, the two, aged 27 and 24, will responsible for advising the mayoral committee on issues of youth development, but sources claimed they had no experience in dispatching such advice. “What we do know is that both are former members of his [Mokgalapa’s] constituency management from Soshanguve and Winterveld. One is a second-year student of agriculture at the Tshwane University of Technology [TUT],” a source said. Mokgalapa on Tuesday confirmed the appointments, but denied there was anything untoward about them. This was the latest jobs uproar to hit the metro. Last year Stefan de Villiers, a fitness trainer and body-building champion, was appointed executive head in the private office of then mayor Solly Msimanga, even though he did not qualify. Last year, Msimanga’s former chief of staff Marietha Aucamp, resigned under a cloud over not meeting the basic qualifications for the job.
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