IDT leadership battle heating up

By Simon Nare

Knives are out for Independent Development Trust CEO Tebogo Malaka as tensions between her and board chairperson Zimbini Hill continue to brew in a boardroom war that wants her out the door, according to her sympathisers in the institution.

They claim it all started when Hill was reappointed into the position she vacated when she was about to be fired by former public works and infrastructure minister Sihle Zikalala in October 2023.

An official within the institution, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told Inside Politics that Hills return was allegedly orchestrated by Public Works and Infrastructure Minister Dean Macpherson, who was in her corner in the boardroom and part of the alleged campaign to get Malaka’s job.

The official alleged that Hill and the minister have made life so unbearable for Malaka that she has written to President Cyril Ramaphosa out of frustration asking that he