Why Kubayi insists nothing wrong with secondment
Energy Minister Mmamoloko Kubayi tells parliamentary committee she has the power to deploy top official elsewhere
Energy Minister Mmamoloko Kubayi stuck to her guns about the legality of her decision to second director-general Thabane Zulu as acting CEO of the Strategic Fuel Fund when the issue was raised in Parliament on Tuesday. The controversy over Zulu’s secondment is similar to events in 2016 when former transport minister Dipuo Peters seconded her director-general, Collins Letsoalo, to the Passenger Rail Agency of SA to serve as acting group CEO — with disastrous consequences. Kubayi also said the department planned to head to court to nullify its decision to sell fuel reserved at fire-sale rates. The fuel could still be recovered, the minister insisted. However, Department of Energy acting director-general Tseliso Maqubela contradicted Kubayi and said there was no way to be sure whether or not the fuel had been sold on. Kubayi was speaking to MPs on the portfolio committee on energy in a briefing about the department’s 2016-17 annual report. She faced tough questions about the fuel fund,...
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