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TimesLIVE Premium reports that Gauteng premier Panyaza Lesufi is to axe three provincial department heads who have failed a series of lifestyle audits and were declared high risk by the Special Investigating Unit (SIU).
He initiated the process after the officials failed two rounds of lifestyle audits undertaken by the SIU. The HODs were notified by the SIU by e-mail, copies of which were sent to Lesufi, that probes into their lifestyles had raised red flags that could not be ignored. Lesufi advised that he has consequentially instructed his office's director-general to immediately start the legal process of firing the HODs, but said he would not reveal who those department heads were until the process had been concluded. “The SIU reports indicate that the three are high-risk and I have no choice but to act. So I've taken a decision that the DG manages the paperwork on the action that needs to be taken,” Lesufi indicated. It was reported last month that Lesufi was expected to axe a “significant” number of provincial heads and the action was imminent. Lesufi was believed to have been contemplating removing several provincial heads for a number of transgressions, including failing lifestyle audits and not meeting targets.
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Kgothatso Madisa at TimesLIVE Premium (subscriber access only)
- See too, Lesufi removes three HODs who failed lifestyle audits, at SowetanLive
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