Brown’s assistant asked to resign amid claims of dealings with the Guptas
Public Enterprises Minister Lynne Brown’s personal assistant, Kim Davids, became the first person in government to fall as a result of disclosures in the Gupta e-mail leaks. But questions have been raised as to whether she was an easy target, considering that other senior officials in the Department of Public Enterprises including director-general Richard Seleke, were also implicated in the leaked e-mails. Suspicion was also raised about why she was not hauled before a disciplinary hearing under the provisions of the Labour Relations Act. On Wednesday, Brown said Davids had been asked to resign to protect the integrity of her (Brown’s) office. Parliament’s portfolio committee on public enterprises as well as the Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse (Outa) said they would have preferred to see Davids face a disciplinary inquiry to get to the bottom of her links to the Gupta family. Davids is said to have been hosted by the Guptas at the plush Oberoi hotel last December, at the same time as...
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