Former transport minister says she is ‘leaving with a positive legacy’
Dipuo Peters is praised from all sides for her work and achievements and is attending to health issues before possible ANC redeployment
Say what you will about why she lost her job, but don’t let former transport minister Dipuo Peters hear you say she was caught sleeping on the job. On announcing her resignation as an MP, Peters said she and her boss were happy with the work she did at the department. On the morning after President Jacob Zuma announced his Cabinet reshuffle, which included replacing her with parliamentary transport committee member Joe Maswanganyi, Peters resigned. While the former minister would not be drawn on the reasons why Zuma chose to remove her from the transport ministry, she said she could not have been removed for lack of effort and progress in stabilising the department. She went from premier of the Northern Cape to minister of energy on Zuma’s rise to power in 2009. She credited herself with migrating key department functions from knotty procurement networks to the department itself. "One thing I know is that I have not been dismissed for failing to do my work. I have served to the best...
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