{"id":37204,"date":"2013-05-06T09:25:43","date_gmt":"2013-05-06T07:25:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=37204"},"modified":"2013-05-06T09:27:22","modified_gmt":"2013-05-06T07:27:22","slug":"saps-to-investigate-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/37204\/saps-to-investigate-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"SAPS to investigate minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The South African Police Services (SAPS) has agreed to proceed with an investigation into\u00a0Minister of Communications, Dina Pule, for\u00a0alleged\u00a0corruption.<\/p>\n<p>This follows a request by the DA to\u00a0investigate\u00a0appointments in the Department of Communications and its entities by minister Pule, and her alleged boyfriend Phosane Mngqibisa.<\/p>\n<p>The police investigation, according to the DA, is based on the affidavit submitted to the SAPS on 10 April 2013 based on a Sunday Times story on 24 March 2013 that alleged:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201c\u2026evidence of an internal audit showing that Mngqibisa engineered getting friends and relatives on the boards of the Post Office, Sentech, USAASA and the SABC with the full knowledge of [Dina] Pule\u201d;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cMngqibisa engineered getting friends and family appointed onto the boards of the Post Office, Sentech, USAASA and the SABC\u201d;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cMngqibisa engineered the appointment of his close relative, Lulama Makhobo, to the post of SABC CEO as well as one of his close friends, Gugu Duda, as chief financial officer\u201d;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>The appointment of Gugu Duda was a \u2018done deal\u2019: Nomakhaya Malebane alleged that \u201cby now the discussions are finalised and considered a \u2018done deal\u2019 with DP [Dina Pule] having met GD [Gugu Duda] and confirmed to her that she is her choice and that all that needs to happen is to endorse this through formal board interviews\u201d;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>In the report, Dina Pule claimed that she only became involved in the appointments \u201cafter the SABC board had completed the search and interviews for suitable candidates\u201d.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;The DA trusts that this investigation will be met with full disclosure by the Minister and all other parties involved, and that appropriate steps are taken should a case for prosecution be established,&#8221; said\u00a0DA shadow minister of communications,\u00a0Marian Shinn.<\/p>\n<p>The DA also notes that minister Pule is currently under investigation by different agencies based on a variety of allegations against her.<\/p>\n<p>The parliamentary ethics and members\u2019 interest committee met on Thursday and Friday, 2 and 3 May 2013, to deal exclusively with the Minister\u2019s role in the ICT Indaba in Cape Town in 2012. The Public Protector is also investigating Minister Dina Pule in connection with the ICT Indaba.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is clearly a compromised minister. President Zuma should suspend Dina Pule until such stage as these investigations are completed and the outcomes are known. To not do so would be to fundamentally undermine the principles of good governance.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The high levels of corruption in South Africa need to be met by swift action, especially when it takes place at the very top,&#8221; Shinn said.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on Dina Pule<\/h3>\n<p><a title=\"Pule apologises to Sunday Times: lawyer\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/37171\/pule-apologises-to-sunday-times-lawyer\/\"><strong>Pule apologises to Sunday Times: lawyer<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/government\/77132-pule-caught-lying-report.html\">Pule caught lying: report<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Phosane Mngqibisa is not my boyfriend: Dina Pule\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/government\/75335-pule-versus-shinn-on-criminal-charges.html\">Phosane Mngqibisa is not my boyfriend: Dina Pule<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Pule reveals blackmail plot\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/government\/76112-pule-reveals-blackmail-plot.html\">Pule reveals blackmail plot<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Dina Pule versus Sunday Times\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/general\/76158-dina-pule-versus-sunday-times.html\">Dina Pule versus Sunday Times<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Should Dina Pule resign?\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/government\/76176-should-dina-pule-resign.html\">Should Dina Pule resign?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Football boss implicated in Pule \u201cblackmail\u201d\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/government\/76708-football-boss-implicated-in-pule-blackmail.html\">Football boss implicated in Pule \u201cblackmail\u201d<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The South African Police Services (SAPS) has agreed to proceed with an investigation into Minister of Communications, Dina Pule for alleged corruption.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":31193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[25,1329,1087,1083,5441,3080,2093,3786,667,3888,1646],"class_list":["post-37204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-government","tag-active","tag-da","tag-department-of-communications","tag-dina-pule","tag-gugu-duda","tag-ict-indaba","tag-marian-shinn","tag-phosane-mngqibisa","tag-sabc","tag-saps","tag-sentech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37204","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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37204"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37212,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37204\/revisions\/37212"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}