Pair allegedly implicated in sex-for-jobs scandal await their fate after DC hearing

25 April 2017 - 18:28 By Asanda Nini
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Two top Bhisho legislature administrators implicated in a sex-for-jobs and jobs-for-pals scandal in 2015‚ will know their fate by next week when their internal disciplinary action is finalised.

The two‚ integrated human resources management general manager (GM) Malibongwe Ngcai and monitoring and evaluation GM Basil Mase‚ were suspended in January 2016. This after the Neela Hoosain commission had implicated them in the scandal.

Their suspension came after they took the institution and the commission’s report to court in December 2015‚ in a bid to prevent the legislature from publicising the report’s contents or implement its recommendations. Also implicated was the institution’s former administration head‚ Pumelele Ndamase‚ who has since left the administration and joined the legislature’s political benches‚ as an ANC MPL. Ndamase was not charged internally‚ as he was no longer part of the legislature’s administration.

  • Bhisho sex-for-jobs probe finds no evidenceA co-operative governance and traditional affairs (Cogta) investigation into sex-for-jobs allegations in Bhisho found no substantiating evidence of senior administrators involved in the scandal. 

The institution’s administration head Vuyani Mapolisa on Tuesday confirmed that Ngcai and Mase’s disciplinary hearing‚ which has been going on for more than a year now‚ was wrapped up on Monday.

He said the only outstanding matter before the hearing was completely finalised‚ was a testimony from “a computer expert” contracted to determine the origins of some of the documents forming part of the evidence against the two.

Both Ngcai and Mase on Tuesday refused to comment on the matter‚ while Ndamase could not be reached.

TMG Digital/DispatchLIVE

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