By Johnathan Paoli
The Democratic Alliance (DA) and the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) are turning up the heat on Higher Education and Training Minister Buti Manamela over appointment of three administrators to lead embattled Sector Education and Training Authorities (SETAs).
They say the move reeks of cadre deployment and warn that the appointments risk entrenching corruption and maladministration in institutions already crippled by governance failures.
DA MP and national spokesperson Karabo Khakhau has lodged a formal request with the chairperson of the National Assembly’s Higher Education and Training Portfolio Committee chairperson Tebogo Letsie, demanding that Manamela be summoned to explain the appointments in the committee’s first sitting of the third quarter.
“Manamela’s appointment of ANC cadres implicated in forensic reports detailing fraud, corruption and mismanagement of public funds is a new national scandal. We cannot have another minister appointing unfit ANC cadres to run SETAs by their own rules,” Khakhau
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