The Citizen reports that the Freedom Front Plus (FF Plus) is to ask Minister of Public Service and Administration Senzo Mchunu to investigate the hiring of a new head of the Eastern Cape Department of Rural Development and Land Reform after she was found guilty of theft by the Department of Agriculture.  

Siphokazi Ndudane was found guilty in a hearing of stealing three tons of abalone, valued at about R7 million, from the department’s stores in Paarden Island between December 2017 and January 2018.  Heloise Denner, FF Plus MP and spokesperson for public service and administration, condemned Ndudane’s appointment, five days after she was dismissed as deputy director-general of the Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries.  She said it displayed the ANC’s embracing of unacceptable and criminal behaviour.  “This once again serves as proof of the ANC’s tendency to simply redeploy cadres who have been implicated in irregularities,” Denner said.  She demanded that the department institute criminal proceedings against Ndudane.  Denner indicated that she would take up the matter with Mchunu and would demand that he investigate the issue.  Action must also be taken against all officials involved.

• Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Eric Naki at The Citizen

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