Mokonyane lambasted for 'collapsing' water dept: SCOPA decries reshuffling and calls for charges
27 February 2018
Cape Town – The Standing Committee on Public Accounts (SCOPA) expressed concern over the reshuffling of former minister of water and sanitation Nomvula Mokonyane to the ministry of communications.
SCOPA chairperson Themba Godi has called for a full parliamentary inquiry and for criminal charges to be opened against Mokonyane's former ministry. Godi said the Department of Water and Sanitation suffered a complete collapse under Mokonyane.
"It is worrying that she is now a minister of communications at a time when the South African Broadcasting Corporation is recovering."
Reminiscent of former president Jacob Zuma's late-night Cabinet change announcements, President Cyril Ramaphosa's Cabinet reshuffle, just after 22:00, announced the ousting of 10 ministers.