Two top Bhisho legislature administrators implicated in the sex-for-jobs and jobs-for-pals scandal have been placed on precautionary suspension.The legislature’s integrated human resources management general manager (GM) Malibongwe Ngcai and strategy, policy, monitoring and evaluation GM Basil Mase, were suspended on Monday and Tuesday respectively.
They are not charged with being involved in the scandal, but for making public a confidential report on the matter and for taking the legislature to court.
They are accused with bringing the institution into disrepute when together with former legislature administration head Pumelele Ndamase they challenged in court in December the publication and implementation of the “sex-for-jobs” report.
Ngcai was given a chance on Monday to state why he should not be placed on precautionary suspension, while Mase was served with the same letter on Tuesday.
When they did not provide responses considered adequate, their precautionary suspension was effected immediately.
This was confirmed yesterday by the legislature administration head, Vuyani Mapolisa.
Mapolisa emphasised that the two were not suspended for being implicated in the sex-for-jobs scandal, but for bringing the legislature into disrepute by taking the institution to court to prevent it from acting on the Neela Hoosain Commission’s probe report.
Ngcai yesterday confirmed his suspension but refused to comment further. Mase said he was “in a very noisy place” and could not speak.
Mapolisa said the two managers were also suspended for being in possession of “the confidential” sex-for-jobs report, which he said was yet to be made public to other stakeholders in the institution such as the rules committee.
In an ironic turn of events, despite the administrators asking the court in December to prevent the institution from making the Hoosain report public, it went into the public domain when they submitted it as part of their court documents in their failed bid.
Mapolisa said the two managers are yet to be charged, which was expected to happen “within 30 days” after they were placed on precautionary suspension.
Bhisho suspends two senior officials after court battle
The legislature’s integrated human resources management general manager (GM) Malibongwe Ngcai and strategy, policy, monitoring and evaluation GM Basil Mase, were suspended on Monday and Tuesday respectively.
They are not charged with being involved in the scandal, but for making public a confidential report on the matter and for taking the legislature to court.
They are accused with bringing the institution into disrepute when together with former legislature administration head Pumelele Ndamase they challenged in court in December the publication and implementation of the “sex-for-jobs” report.
Ngcai was given a chance on Monday to state why he should not be placed on precautionary suspension, while Mase was served with the same letter on Tuesday.
When they did not provide responses considered adequate, their precautionary suspension was effected immediately.
This was confirmed yesterday by the legislature administration head, Vuyani Mapolisa.
Mapolisa emphasised that the two were not suspended for being implicated in the sex-for-jobs scandal, but for bringing the legislature into disrepute by taking the institution to court to prevent it from acting on the Neela Hoosain Commission’s probe report.
Ngcai yesterday confirmed his suspension but refused to comment further. Mase said he was “in a very noisy place” and could not speak.
Mapolisa said the two managers were also suspended for being in possession of “the confidential” sex-for-jobs report, which he said was yet to be made public to other stakeholders in the institution such as the rules committee.
In an ironic turn of events, despite the administrators asking the court in December to prevent the institution from making the Hoosain report public, it went into the public domain when they submitted it as part of their court documents in their failed bid.
Mapolisa said the two managers are yet to be charged, which was expected to happen “within 30 days” after they were placed on precautionary suspension.
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