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TimesLIVE reports that International Relations & Co-operation Minister Naledi Pandor has declined to tell parliament why she put the department’s director-general, Kgabo Mahoai, on precautionary suspension.
Pandor would only say that Mahoai’s suspension was with pay and that she had followed the required prescripts in taking the decision. “I cannot go into reasons or detail with respect to the director-general’s precautionary suspension but I will come back at the appropriate time, under legal advice, to indicate the outcomes and processes which I’ve attempted to follow assiduously in terms of the Public Service Act, including consulting the department of public service & administration,” she indicated on Thursday. MPs repeatedly pushed Pandor, with some saying she should at least indicate whether the suspension was linked to the R118m paid for an abandoned and dilapidated building in New York. That expenditure was deemed irregular by the auditor-general, who also identified a number of officials who should be held responsible for irregularities in the awarding of the tender. But on Thursday, both Pandor and her spokesperson told MPs they have never linked Mahoai’s suspension to the New York property scandal.
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Andisiwe Makinana at BusinessLive
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