TRANSPARENCY
Transnet to be grilled on vetting lag
Scopa calls up Transnet executives on transparency obligations after they failed to show for scheduled meeting in 2017
15 January 2018 - 05:41
Parliament’s standing committee on public accounts (Scopa) is to quiz Transnet and other state organs that have shirked their transparency obligations. Scopa chairman Themba Godi told Business Day the committee had gone ahead with its decision to subpoena Transnet executives to account to Parliament after they failed to make a scheduled meeting in 2017. State Security Minister Bongani Bongo told Scopa in December that the Cabinet’s directive to ensure the vetting of all supply chain management staff at departments and state-owned entities was far from complete, three years after it was announced.
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