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TimesLIVE reports that Department of Higher Education and Training Minister Nobuhle Nkabane is still digging in her heels over the submission to parliament of the names on the “independent selection panel” she relied on to make controversial chair appointments to Sector Education and Training Authorities (Seta) boards last month.
Nkabane had until the close of business on Wednesday to submit records and minutes of the meetings of the “independent panel” that she says advised on the appointments of the chairpersons of Setas that she was last month ordered to reverse by the Presidency. But at the eleventh-hour on Wednesday, it emerged that Nkabane had written to Tebego Letsie, chair of the portfolio committee on higher education, asking that the 11 June deadline be extended by a further 20 days, to June 20. The higher education committee had given her the deadline last week after she refused to disclose the names and full details of her “independent panel” at a heated meeting, with Nkabane citing the Protection of Personal Information Act. Nkabane landed in hot water several weeks ago after it emerged that she had appointed controversial and politically connected people to chair the boards of the Setas. Some sources have cast doubt on the existence of the “independent selection panel”. The portfolio committee is expected to discuss its response to Nkabane’s deadline request in the coming days.
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Thabo Mokone at TimesLIVE
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