Joemat-Pettersson must be sanctioned for PetroSA chairman appointment
30 November 2014
At the first Parliamentary sitting of 2015 I will reintroduce the DA Motion of censure against Energy Minister Tina Joemat-Pettersson. I will call for her to be referred to Parliament's Joint Committee on Ethics and Members' Interests for investigation and sanction.
The Minister must be referred to the Ethics Committee for interfering in the appointment process of the chairperson of the board of PetroSA and personally recommending that Mr. Tshepo Kgadima be appointed; an appointment that has since been rescinded.
While this rescission is a welcome confirmation of the DA's position that Kgadima was not a fit and proper person to be appointed as chairperson of the PetroSA Board, it is an indictment on Minister Joemat-Pettersson's failure to undertake due diligence in recommending Kgadima.
The Minister must be held accountable for this error of judgment, and illegitimate meddling.