Another National Key Point revealed: full list must be tabled
In a reply to a DA parliamentary question, the Minister of Home Affairs has revealed yet another National Key Point - the Government Printing Works (GPW) building in Pretoria. If it is possible for the Minister of Home Affairs to reveal a National Key Point then the Police Minister, Nathi Mthethwa, must come clean on the rest.
I will be writing to Minister Mthethwa today to request that the review into the National Key Points provides a full list of the NKPs as well as the criteria used to classify them as such. Furthermore, the DA will be submitting questions to each department to determine other National Key Points.
The DA's Shadow Minister of Home Affairs, Manny de Freitas, asked whether there were any buildings under the Department of Home Affairs which were classified as National Key Points. Minister Pandor revealed that the GPW Head Office is a NKP and also provided the criteria for classifying it as such:
- Strategic Importance
- Irreplaceability
- Inter-dependence
- Effect on morale
Furthermore, this information was also voluntarily provided in the Home Affairs portfolio committee by the Department earlier this year.