A provincial department task team investigating nepotism allegations has received 14 complaints against a top manager.
The task team, appointed by the department of cooperative governance and traditional affairs (Cogta), received the complaints against the department’s accounting officer, Stanley Khanyile. None of the complaints relate to sex-for-jobs, which the team is also investigating.
Khanyile was placed on precautionary suspension by MEC Fikile Xasa last month amid the investigations.
The general manager in his office, Vuyokazi Sonamzi, was also suspended while investigations continued.
The Daily Dispatch has learnt that Khanyile was handed a file with the 14 complaints against him.
Other senior managers within the department have also been handed documents with complaints against them. They were all given until today to respond.
One of the cases against Khanyile was filed by a municipal manager who claimed he was forced to divorce his wife because of an “adulterous relationship” his ex-wife allegedly had with the Cogta superintendent-general. The Dispatch discovered the official’s wife had in fact filed for divorce months before she started working at Khanyile’s office.
Other complaints include officials questioning the selection process in hiring senior managers within the department.
Some complaints seen by the Dispatch relate to disciplinary cases in which the officials claimed their cases were not handled fairly and properly.
Khanyile confirmed he was asked to respond to the 14 “issues” and that he had already responded.
“I can only confirm that I had received the list of complaints and have already responded to such. However, I cannot dwell much on details until the investigation process is completed,” he said.
Cogta spokesman Mamnkeli Ngam could not be reached comment.
The Dispatch previously reported that more sex-for-jobs and jobs-for-pals complainants had come forward over the alleged practices in the department.
In September Xasa appointed a task team led by the chairman of the Transkei Bar of Advocates, Vusumzi Msiwa, to investigate claims initially raised by the labour union at Khanyile’s department.
Msiwa told the Dispatch two weeks ago that his team had submitted a report to Xasa on his team’s investigation.
“The office of the MEC has been furnished with a report,” Msiwa said at the time. He could not be reached yesterday.
Msiwa said all officials accused of improper conduct were furnished with statements containing the allegations.
The task team was asked to investigate various allegations against senior administrators, including Khanyile.
This was after Nehawu members at the department had alleged Khanyile was “implicated in the intended ignorance of recruitment policy and employing foreigners and also not implementing the employment equity policy”.
In July the Dispatch published a report of a woman in her 50s who claimed to have endured seven years of sexual assault – repeated rape and degrading treatment – in Xasa’s department.
She submitted an affidavit detailing her assault at the hands of her then boss, who has since left the department.
The allegations of nepotism and managers demanding sexual favours in exchange for jobs first surfaced at the Bhisho legislature a few months ago, prompting both Premier Phumulo Masualle and legislature speaker Noxolo Kiviet to establish separate teams to investigate the allegations. — asandan@dispatch.co.za
14 complaints against manager
The task team, appointed by the department of cooperative governance and traditional affairs (Cogta), received the complaints against the department’s accounting officer, Stanley Khanyile. None of the complaints relate to sex-for-jobs, which the team is also investigating.
Khanyile was placed on precautionary suspension by MEC Fikile Xasa last month amid the investigations.
The general manager in his office, Vuyokazi Sonamzi, was also suspended while investigations continued.
The Daily Dispatch has learnt that Khanyile was handed a file with the 14 complaints against him.
Other senior managers within the department have also been handed documents with complaints against them. They were all given until today to respond.
One of the cases against Khanyile was filed by a municipal manager who claimed he was forced to divorce his wife because of an “adulterous relationship” his ex-wife allegedly had with the Cogta superintendent-general. The Dispatch discovered the official’s wife had in fact filed for divorce months before she started working at Khanyile’s office.
Other complaints include officials questioning the selection process in hiring senior managers within the department.
Some complaints seen by the Dispatch relate to disciplinary cases in which the officials claimed their cases were not handled fairly and properly.
Khanyile confirmed he was asked to respond to the 14 “issues” and that he had already responded.
“I can only confirm that I had received the list of complaints and have already responded to such. However, I cannot dwell much on details until the investigation process is completed,” he said.
Cogta spokesman Mamnkeli Ngam could not be reached comment.
The Dispatch previously reported that more sex-for-jobs and jobs-for-pals complainants had come forward over the alleged practices in the department.
In September Xasa appointed a task team led by the chairman of the Transkei Bar of Advocates, Vusumzi Msiwa, to investigate claims initially raised by the labour union at Khanyile’s department.
Msiwa told the Dispatch two weeks ago that his team had submitted a report to Xasa on his team’s investigation.
“The office of the MEC has been furnished with a report,” Msiwa said at the time. He could not be reached yesterday.
Msiwa said all officials accused of improper conduct were furnished with statements containing the allegations.
The task team was asked to investigate various allegations against senior administrators, including Khanyile.
This was after Nehawu members at the department had alleged Khanyile was “implicated in the intended ignorance of recruitment policy and employing foreigners and also not implementing the employment equity policy”.
In July the Dispatch published a report of a woman in her 50s who claimed to have endured seven years of sexual assault – repeated rape and degrading treatment – in Xasa’s department.
She submitted an affidavit detailing her assault at the hands of her then boss, who has since left the department.
The allegations of nepotism and managers demanding sexual favours in exchange for jobs first surfaced at the Bhisho legislature a few months ago, prompting both Premier Phumulo Masualle and legislature speaker Noxolo Kiviet to establish separate teams to investigate the allegations. — asandan@dispatch.co.za
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