The ad hoc committee set up to appoint a new public protector will on Wednesday afternoon shortlist the names of 10 people for the position.
The committee met in the morning to discuss the process of shortlisting and interviewing of the candidates.
It was decided that a maximum of 10 candidates will be chosen from the list of 64 available names.
All the interviews will be conducted on the same day — expected to be August 11.
Each interview will run for between 45 minutes and one hour‚ and each candidate will be given a maximum of 15 minutes to talk about themselves and how they meet the four broad criteria mapped out by the committee for the post.
The committee will question the candidates for the remainder of the time period.
The four criteria are: knowledge‚ skills‚ character and experience.
Among the attributes the committee is looking for are an independent thinker with legal and forensic investigative skills‚ and the applicant should also have integrity‚ be honest‚ and have sound managerial and excellent communications skills.
African National Congress MP Madipoane Mothapo said that she believed that the list also needed to take gender and racial dynamics into condiseration.
Committee chair Makhosi Khoza agreed saying she did not want the list to look like “an all boys choir”.
Khoza said that they had received public submissions of information for 12 of the nominees‚ which would be taken into consideration‚ along with the candidates CVs during the shortlisting process.
She said these comments would not “necessarily be grounds for disqualification”‚ but said that should the person make it onto the shortlist‚ they would be questioned about any concerns raised in the public submissions.
Khoza said that this was the first time there had been such “intense public interest” in the appointment of the public protector and such public participation was welcomed.
“This must not just be a tick-box exercise‚” she said.
The shortlisting had to be delayed somewhat on Wednesday morning as several members of the committee said they had not yet received the public submissions documents and felt that it would be unfair to proceed without having had sight of them. — Tiso Black Star Group Digital/Parliament
Public protector shortlisting will not be ‘a tick-box exercise’
The committee met in the morning to discuss the process of shortlisting and interviewing of the candidates.
It was decided that a maximum of 10 candidates will be chosen from the list of 64 available names.
All the interviews will be conducted on the same day — expected to be August 11.
Each interview will run for between 45 minutes and one hour‚ and each candidate will be given a maximum of 15 minutes to talk about themselves and how they meet the four broad criteria mapped out by the committee for the post.
The committee will question the candidates for the remainder of the time period.
The four criteria are: knowledge‚ skills‚ character and experience.
Among the attributes the committee is looking for are an independent thinker with legal and forensic investigative skills‚ and the applicant should also have integrity‚ be honest‚ and have sound managerial and excellent communications skills.
African National Congress MP Madipoane Mothapo said that she believed that the list also needed to take gender and racial dynamics into condiseration.
Committee chair Makhosi Khoza agreed saying she did not want the list to look like “an all boys choir”.
Khoza said that they had received public submissions of information for 12 of the nominees‚ which would be taken into consideration‚ along with the candidates CVs during the shortlisting process.
She said these comments would not “necessarily be grounds for disqualification”‚ but said that should the person make it onto the shortlist‚ they would be questioned about any concerns raised in the public submissions.
Khoza said that this was the first time there had been such “intense public interest” in the appointment of the public protector and such public participation was welcomed.
“This must not just be a tick-box exercise‚” she said.
The shortlisting had to be delayed somewhat on Wednesday morning as several members of the committee said they had not yet received the public submissions documents and felt that it would be unfair to proceed without having had sight of them. — Tiso Black Star Group Digital/Parliament
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