On Monday, Trade and Industry Minister Rob Davies met the board of the South African Bureau of Standards (SABS), but is yet to make a decision on its fate.Davies heard oral representations as to why he should not suspend the board members with a view to placing the organisation under administration.The meeting was apparently at the request of the board, which has already made a written submission to the minister following the notice he gave members about 10 days ago of his intention to suspend them. The board was given five days within which to make representations as to why it should not be suspended.Ministerial spokesperson Sidwell Medupe said after the meeting that Davies had not yet made a decision on the suspensions.The failure of the SABS board to act timeously on an irregular certificate the organisation issued on behalf of a Tegeta mine is among the reasons Davies decided to take action. Governance lapses and the SABS’s termination of partial testing were also given as reaso...
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