Ellen Tshabalala must be removed from Transnet board
07 December 2014
I will today write to the Minister of Public Enterprises, Lynne Brown, requesting that she invoke her shareholders' powers in terms of the Companies Act, 17 of 2008 and remove Ellen Tshabalala immediately from the Transnet Board.
Section 71(a) of the Act empowers the minister to convene a shareholders meeting where she, as the governments representative and sole shareholder of Transnet, can pass an ordinary resolution resolving that Ellen Tshabalala be removed from the board.
Last week Ms Tshabalala was found guilty of misconduct for lying to Parliament about her qualifications. It was determined that Ms Tshabalala was not in possession of any of the qualifications which she claimed to have obtained from UNISA. These bogus qualifications however remain part of her bio on Transnet's website.
Ms Tshabalala has displayed outright dishonesty by firstly lying about her qualifications and secondly by lying to the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Communications' Inquiry into her qualifications. The DA has already laid charges of perjury in this regard.