ANC's Ntuli backs Parly's ethics committee to decide if Nkabane lied or not
The Democratic Alliance (DA) on Tuesday laid a criminal complaint at the Cape Town Central Police Station, saying that it would not tolerate ministers who lied and committed criminal acts in the face of the public.
Minister of Higher Education and Training, Dr Nobuhle Nkabane. Picture: @GovernmentZA/X
JOHANNESBURG - The African National Congress (ANC)'s chief whip said that the party was scrutinising Higher Education Minister Nobuhle Nkabane's decision-making around a newly appointed SETA board.
Mdumiseni Ntuli said that during the course of several meetings to scrutinise the allegations brought against Nkabane, it became evident that the reports could be damning.
The Democratic Alliance (DA) on Tuesday laid a criminal complaint at the Cape Town Central Police Station, saying that it would not tolerate ministers who lied and committed criminal acts in the face of the public.
DA spokesperson, Karabo Khakhau, said that the party uncovered that out of the 573 applications for SETA board chairpersons, Nkabane appointed only 20, who were what the DA said were ANC loyalists.
Ntuli said that he told Nkabane that this would pose a major challenge for her when the matter underwent investigation by the portfolio committee on higher education and training.
"What she presented in Parliament verbally as opposed to what was then released later on in terms of the actual members of the panel, was not consistent. And that is what I'm sure the committee on ethics, when it looks at the information before them, because these meetings are recorded, will be in a position to take an informed decision about whether or not she lied or she did not lie."