The team tasked to investigate Bhisho legislature’s sex-for-jobs scandal has in their possession several leads of how at least three senior managers allegedly had sex with subordinates.
Task team leader, former ANC MPL Neela Hoosain, shared with Saturday Dispatch the progress they have made regarding an investigation into the scandal that is alleged to have occurred past four years.
The task team was appointed by legislature speaker Noxolo Kiviet in May after allegations that senior legislature administrators were soliciting sexual favours from interns and junior employees in exchange for permanent jobs or promotions, surfaced last year.
The team has received several complaints alleging a sex-for-jobs scandal, irregular appointments and managers having affairs with junior staff members.
Similar allegations had earlier been made by the labour union at the cooperative governance and traditional affairs department, prompting MEC Fikile Xasa to sanction a similar probe last year.
However it yielded no results. Premier Phumulo Masualle also instituted a similar probe led by Advocate Vusumzi Msiwa.
Masualle later referred the investigations to the Special Investigative Unit (SIU), which is yet to make its findings public. The Hoosain team, which kicked off their probe in June, was supposed to have concluded their business at the end of July.
Their term has since been extended to the end of this month. Hoosain added that her team had hit a snag after no-one from outside the institution came forward to blow the whistle on any alleged wrongdoing.
“Since 2011 there had been more than 500 interns who had applied at the institution and between 300 to 500 other people who had applied for each of the 67 posts advertised in that period,” she said.
Hoosain said the team has also received complaints about irregular appointments, which were not related to sex-for-jobs. She added that her team had so far scrutinised 67 appointments made at the institution since 2011, saying her team found that seven of those appointments, were allegedly done irregularly.
She said at the end of this month, she would compile a report and present it to Kiviet before it could be made public. Attempts to get comment from Kiviet or deputy speaker Bulelwa Tunyiswa were unsuccessful at the time of writing. — asandan@dispatch.co.za
Fresh leads in jobs-for-sex inquiry
Task team leader, former ANC MPL Neela Hoosain, shared with Saturday Dispatch the progress they have made regarding an investigation into the scandal that is alleged to have occurred past four years.
The task team was appointed by legislature speaker Noxolo Kiviet in May after allegations that senior legislature administrators were soliciting sexual favours from interns and junior employees in exchange for permanent jobs or promotions, surfaced last year.
The team has received several complaints alleging a sex-for-jobs scandal, irregular appointments and managers having affairs with junior staff members.
Similar allegations had earlier been made by the labour union at the cooperative governance and traditional affairs department, prompting MEC Fikile Xasa to sanction a similar probe last year.
However it yielded no results. Premier Phumulo Masualle also instituted a similar probe led by Advocate Vusumzi Msiwa.
Masualle later referred the investigations to the Special Investigative Unit (SIU), which is yet to make its findings public. The Hoosain team, which kicked off their probe in June, was supposed to have concluded their business at the end of July.
Their term has since been extended to the end of this month. Hoosain added that her team had hit a snag after no-one from outside the institution came forward to blow the whistle on any alleged wrongdoing.
“Since 2011 there had been more than 500 interns who had applied at the institution and between 300 to 500 other people who had applied for each of the 67 posts advertised in that period,” she said.
Hoosain said the team has also received complaints about irregular appointments, which were not related to sex-for-jobs. She added that her team had so far scrutinised 67 appointments made at the institution since 2011, saying her team found that seven of those appointments, were allegedly done irregularly.
She said at the end of this month, she would compile a report and present it to Kiviet before it could be made public. Attempts to get comment from Kiviet or deputy speaker Bulelwa Tunyiswa were unsuccessful at the time of writing. — asandan@dispatch.co.za
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