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News24 reports that disgraced Public Service Commission (PSC) director-general Dovhani Mamphiswana has been fired after an investigation revealed that he brazenly hired the mother of his child as a director at the entity.
In August, President Cyril Ramaphosa announced that Mamphiswana had been placed on precautionary suspension. Advocate Smanga Sethene was appointed by the Office of the State Attorney to investigate media reports that Mamphiswana had illegally appointed the mother of his child, Boitumelo Mogwe, as chief director for professional ethics in December 2019. Sethene found that the appointment of Mogwe was the result of "nepotism, deceit, dishonesty, corruption and fraud". On Monday, a spokesperson for Public Service and Administration Minister Senzo Mchunu confirmed Mamphiswana's axing. Sethene's investigation uncovered many irregularities in respect of Mamphiswana's actions. Democratic Alliance (DA) MP Leon Schreiber said that now that Mamphiswana had been fired, they would initiate a process to "get him behind bars". He welcomed reports that Mamphiswana was - fittingly for a bandit - "seen escorted by security guards" out of the PSC headquarters last week.
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Jason Felix at News24
Read too, PSC boss guilty of nepotism, on page 1 of The Sunday Independent of 6 December 2020
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