MISCONDUCT HEARING
Call for report on SAA executive to be released
Alf Lees, the DA’s shadow deputy minister of finance, has written to the South African Institute of Chartered Accountants (Saica) to ask that a report by its disciplinary committee into charges of misconduct against Robert Newsome, a senior executive at SAA and a former director of PwC, be publicly released.The disciplinary hearing was the result of a complaint lodged against Newsome by Simon Mantell, CEO of Mantelli’s Biscuits. Mantell’s complaint related to a hearing by the Institute of Internal Auditors, which was chaired by Newsome.The hearing, which was into the behaviour of Siyakhula Vilakazi, the chief audit executive of SAA, found there was insufficient evidence to charge Vilakazi. Mantell lodged the complaint on the grounds Newsome had not disclosed a conflict of interest in SAA matters.Lees acknowledged it was to Saica’s credit that it had called for penalties to be imposed on Newsome and opened the disciplinary hearing to the public.In this context, it was "astounding" th...
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