PROCUREMENT POLICIES
EXCLUSIVE: Nedlac rocked by new scandal as executives probed for financial misconduct
The council’s CFO Mfanufikile Daza has been suspended and is facing charges for allegedly breaching procurement policies
The organisation tasked with ensuring that proposals by the recent jobs summit to create 275,000 jobs a year are implemented, has been rocked by scandal yet again, with two executives allegedly implicated in financial misconduct. The National Economic Development and Labour Council (Nedlac), an entity of the labour department, is made up of government, business, labour and community constituencies, and formulates labour market policy and provides input on other legislation. Business Day has been reliably informed that the council’s CFO Mfanufikile Daza has been suspended and is facing charges for allegedly breaching procurement policies. Daza declined to comment, saying he was not ready to discuss the issue. Nedlac executive director Madoda Vilakazi said the CFO had been suspended over "a number of issues". "If someone has breached procedures, I would not want to specify what it was about. It’s a number of things and we are still in the process of finalising investigations," Vilakaz...
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