{"id":63007,"date":"2014-07-16T15:32:22","date_gmt":"2014-07-16T13:32:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=63007"},"modified":"2014-07-16T15:32:22","modified_gmt":"2014-07-16T13:32:22","slug":"a-timeline-of-doc-scandals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/telecommunications\/63007\/a-timeline-of-doc-scandals\/","title":{"rendered":"A timeline of DoC scandals"},"content":{"rendered":"

The communications ministry has been dogged by a number of scandals over the past several years including\u00a0allegations of fraud, mismanagement, and cronyism.<\/p>\n

Following the recent announcement of Faith Muthambi as the new minister of communications, many hoped she would follow in the footsteps of her predecessor, Yunus Carrim.<\/p>\n

Carrim made significant progress in turning the troubled Department of Communications around in just nine months. And Carrim’s record reputation remained squeaky clean during his brief tenure.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, it did not take long for Muthambi to be implicated in scandal \u2013 the appointment of Hlaudi Motsoeneng as SABC COO.<\/p>\n

The Sunday Times reported that that new minister lied to the SABC board to appoint Motsoeneng as SABC COO.<\/p>\n

According to the newspaper, Muthambi ignored the fact that no formal settlement was reached with former SABC COO Mvuzo Mbebe, meaning that Muthambi may be in contempt of court.<\/p>\n

The Sunday Independent reported that Muthambi is set to appear before a parliamentary committee to explain her ratification of Motsoeneng\u2019s appointment as SABC COO.<\/p>\n

Communications committee chairperson Joyce Moloi-Moropa confirmed the minister would appear before the committee.<\/p>\n

Muthambi therefore finds herself in hot water less than two months after she took office.<\/p>\n

MyBroadband has compiled a list of previous communication ministers, and how long it took before they were involved in their first controversy.<\/p>\n

It should be noted that these controversies did not all lead to disciplinary action, and should only be seen as questions about their actions rather than convictions over\u00a0wrongdoings.<\/p>\n

\"Communications<\/a><\/p>\n

\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Communications Minister<\/strong><\/td>\nAppointed<\/strong><\/td>\nFirst controversy<\/strong><\/td>\nControversy<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Faith Muthambi<\/td>\n25 May 2014<\/td>\n13 July 2014<\/td>\nAppointment of Hlaudi Motsoeneng<\/strong><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Yunus Carrim<\/td>\n9 July 2013<\/td>\nNone<\/td>\nNone<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Dina Pule<\/td>\n24 October 2011<\/td>\n17 June 2012<\/td>\nICT Indaba scandal<\/strong><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Roy Padayachie<\/td>\n1 November 2010<\/td>\n21 November 2010<\/td>\nExpensive hotel stays<\/strong><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Siphiwe Nyanda<\/td>\n10 May 2009<\/td>\n16 July 2009<\/td>\nExpensive cars<\/strong><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n

This article first appeared on MyBroadband<\/a><\/h3>\n

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New communications minister Faith Muthambi finds herself in hot water less than two months after her appointment. Is it a record for the department?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":37714,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[1444,26,5396],"class_list":["post-63007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-telecommunications","tag-doc","tag-headline","tag-hlaudi-motsoeneng"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63007","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=63007"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63007\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63013,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63007\/revisions\/63013"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}