Democratic Alliance DA member of Parliament Karabo Khakhau has written an open letter to President Cyril Ramaphosa asking him to fire Higher Education and Training Minister Dr Nobuhle Nkabane with immediate effect.
Nkabane is embroiled in controversy surrounding her appointment - and reversal - of board chairs of Sectoral Education and Training Authorities SETA .
DA asks Ramaphosa to sack Nobuhle NkabaneBelow is Khakhaus open letter in full:
Dear Mr. President,
The past weeks have revealed a series of lies to Parliament by Minister Nobuhle Nkabane.
She has used a strategy of lying to Parliament to try and cover up her tracks, after she made a brazen ANC cadre deployment appointment to the boards of the Sectoral Education and Training Authorities. South Africans were rightfully outraged about this.
Once exposed, and once public pressure mounted, Minister Nkabane made an effective admission to her infringements, by withdrawing the appointments.
Her ANC cadre deployment had been exposed, roundly criticised, and she had to admit defeat.
What followed was a series of lies. Her first lie to Parliament, to underplay her own involvement, was that an "independent panel" had chosen the successful ANC cadres - deflecting attention from her.
But the vague and evasive explanation demanded details, names and identities. Minister Nkabane was put on terms to come clean to Parliament and declare to the Portfolio Committee about who sat on this "independent panel" and in her reply, Minister Nkabane once again lied. For a second time, she lied to Parliament.