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Pretoria News reports that Gauteng MEC for Roads and Transport Jacob Mamabolo has admitted that his department failed to fill 85 key positions despite the fact that all those positions were fully funded posts for the 2020/2021 financial year.
This was confirmed by Mamabolo in his written replies to questions in the Gauteng provincial legislature from DA spokesperson on roads and transport Evert du Plessis. In his reply, Mamabolo said the lack of recruitment for the 85 vacancies was due to the organisation review project that was currently under way in his department. Du Plessis had also wanted to find out if any consequence management had been executed against the executive officer. Mamabolo replied that there had been no consequences for the accounting officer, saying “the rational for not implementing consequence management is due to the fact that the organisational structure review process has not yet been completed”. Despite his written response, Mamabolo over the weekend launched a R500 million grass cutting project which saw 19 companies awarded tenders. A total of 1,000 jobs were created and the initial project began at the R21 Albertina Sisulu Road. Referring to the vacancies, Du Plessis noted: “Furthermore, no consequence management for this took place, which again highlights that no political will exists within the Premier (David) Makhura-led administration to ensure that service delivery takes place.”
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Baldwin Ndaba at IOL
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