{"id":169635,"date":"2017-04-10T13:53:46","date_gmt":"2017-04-10T11:53:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=169635"},"modified":"2017-04-10T13:53:46","modified_gmt":"2017-04-10T11:53:46","slug":"axing-of-prasa-board-set-aside","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/169635\/axing-of-prasa-board-set-aside\/","title":{"rendered":"Axing of Prasa board set aside"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The High Court in Pretoria has ruled that the decision by the transport minister to dissolve the Prasa board has been set aside.<\/p>\n<p>The court ruled that the appointment of an interim board was also set aside, while the dissolved board must be reinstated.<\/p>\n<p>Former Prasa board chairperson Popo Molefe, along with the other fired directors of Prasa, previously approached the court to review or declare the board&#8217;s dissolution unlawful, reinstate them to their former positions, and prevent an interim board from being appointed.<\/p>\n<p>While the application was being heard in March, then Transport Minister Dipuo Peters named an interim board, which included former CEO of Sanral Nazir Alli.<\/p>\n<p>Peters lost her job in President Jacob Zuma&#8217;s recent controversial Cabinet reshuffle, which also saw Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan axed. She subsequently resigned as an ANC MP.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.news24.com\/SouthAfrica\/News\/axing-of-prasa-board-set-aside-20170410\" target=\"_blank\">News24<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/167569\/new-deputy-finance-minister-linked-to-possible-financial-irregularities-at-prasa\/\" target=\"_blank\">New deputy finance minister linked to possible financial irregularities at Prasa<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The High Court in Pretoria has ruled that the decision by the transport minister to dissolve the Prasa board has been set aside.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":114502,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[25,5695],"class_list":["post-169635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-government","tag-active","tag-prasa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169635"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169635\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":169637,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169635\/revisions\/169637"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}