Johnathan Paoli
THE Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse (OUTA) is outraged at what it claims is a slap on the wrist for Deputy Minister of Small Business Development Dipuo Peters for severe “transgressions” she committed at PRASA when she was still Transport Minister.
Peters was suspended from Parliament after a report from the joining committee on ethics alleged that she had been careless in her previous portfolio as Transport Minister by failing to appoint a PRASA group CEO, irrationally dismissing the board chair Popo Molefe and authoriting the use of PRASA buses for ANC events.
OUTA’s Wayne Duvenage said Peters, when she was at PRASA, was instrumental in systemic corruption that ultimately decimated the rail passenger services that had been the transport backbone for millions of South Africans.
“It’s never too late but it’s far too little and this is not enough. The fact that she is still a deputy minister
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