Parliaments Portfolio Committee on Tourism has voiced frustration at the absence of Tourism Minister Patricia de Lille from consecutive committee meetings dealing with audit outcomes, performance reports as well as contractual and legal issues at the Department of Tourism and SA Tourism.
De Lille has not attended a parliamentary portfolio committee meeting since September 2 when MPs questioned her decision to dissolve the former SA Tourism Board.
The meetings that have taken place since then covered, among other topics, the annual audit outcomes and annual reports of the Department of Tourism and SA Tourism as well as overviews of SA Tourisms active and closed contracts and court cases.