Medical Registrar violation: MEC Dhlomo should stop subterfuge and hand over DoH recruitment policy
28 January 2019
The Democratic Alliance has submitted a Public Access to Information Application (PAIA) (view here) to the KwaZulu-Natal Department of Health (DoH) in a bid to force MEC Sibongiseni Dhlomo to hand over his Department’s recruitment policy.
The move comes after the DA, earlier this month, obtained a copy of a leaked internal circular dated September 2018 alluding to a directive that all 100 posts for 2019 medical registrars in the province be filled with black African candidates only. The circular further claimed that decision was based on an earlier lack of compliance by the DoH in terms of Employment Equity policy.
The DA regards the decision taken by MEC Dhlomo as both discriminatory and highly unethical. Since the discovery of the circular we have made repeated requests to the DoH for a copy of its recruitment policy. These have been ignored.
This information belongs in the public domain and the DA has therefore submitted a Public Access to Information Application to HoD, Dr Musa Gumede. We expect him to comply with our application.