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May 14, 2009 Edition 1
The DA has welcomed new Human Settlements Minister Tokyo Sexwale's resignation as executive chairman of the Mvelaphanda Group.
DA chief whip Ian Davidson said it was important that anyone in a position to influence government spending was always completely free of commercial interests.
Sexwale resigned as executive chairman and as a member of Mvelaphanda's board with effect from May 11.
President Jacob Zuma appointed Sexwale to head the Human Settlements Ministry on Sunday.
Davidson called on the new leadership to set a tone of "principled administration" by taking firm action against the government employees who were recently found to have been doing business with national departments.
Two weeks ago, the Auditor-General tabled a report stat- ing that some government employees had made misrepresentations in tender documents by not declaring their connections to companies making bids for the tenders.
Forty-nine state employees were found to be directors or members of companies that did business with national government departments.
Only 4 percent of these employees had permission to do this.
Between August 2007 and July 2008, R35 million was paid to these companies.
"Public servants did not have permission to be directors or members of these tendering companies," Davidson said.
"In addition to acting against these employees, we also call on the new regime to ensure that national departments create databases to monitor employees who do other remunerative work - the Auditor-General condemned departments for not having such registers." - Sapa
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