{"id":43801,"date":"2013-08-07T14:25:12","date_gmt":"2013-08-07T12:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=43801"},"modified":"2013-08-07T17:25:22","modified_gmt":"2013-08-07T15:25:22","slug":"day-of-reckoning-for-dina-pule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/43801\/day-of-reckoning-for-dina-pule\/","title":{"rendered":"Dina Pule&#8217;s day of reckoning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dina Pule, the former minister of communications, is set to hear her fate later today (7 August) regarding allegations of corruption and nepotism.<\/p>\n<p>The controversial figure meanwhile has been appointed to the Portfolio Committee on Transport (PCT) for the African National Congress (ANC).<\/p>\n<p>This is according to the Democratic Alliance\u2019s shadow Transport Minister, Ian Ollis and confirmed by the PCT.<\/p>\n<p>Joint Committee on Ethics and Members\u2019 Interests has called a briefing in Parliament\u00a0to give its findings on allegations that Pule\u2019s partner, Phosane Mngqibisa,\u00a0benefitted from an ICT Indaba which was organised by her Department in 2012.<\/p>\n<p>Pule was\u00a0<a title=\"Dina Pule\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/tag\/dina-pule\">embroiled in a number of scandals<\/a>\u00a0over the last year, including accusations of cronyism and maladministration, before she was dumped in early July, as part of a cabinet reshuffle.<\/p>\n<p>Pule is also currently being investigated by the Hawks following corruption charges laid by the DA.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">\u00a0More on Dina Pule<\/h3>\n<p><a title=\"Dina Pule sacked\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/41574\/dina-pule-sacked\/\"><strong>Dina Pule sacked<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Dina Pule left out in the cold\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/42070\/dina-pule-left-out-in-the-cold\/\"><strong>Dina Pule left out in the cold<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Pule should be held to account: DA\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/telecommunications\/41696\/pule-should-be-held-to-account-da\/\"><strong>Pule should be held to account: DA<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/42482\/pule-investigation-heads-to-the-hawks\/\">Pule investigation heads to the Hawks<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dina Pule, the former minister of communications, is set to hear her fate later on Wednesday regarding allegations of corruption and nepotism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":39249,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[25,1329,1083],"class_list":["post-43801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-government","tag-active","tag-da","tag-dina-pule"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43801","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=43801"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43801\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43804,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43801\/revisions\/43804"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}