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DA slams education minister Buti Manamela over Seta appointments
The DA has rejected higher education minister Buti Manamela's sector education and training authority (Seta) takeover, claiming he has appointed corruption-tainted individuals.
The minister announced Oupa Nkoane, Lehlohonolo Masoga and Zukile Mvalo as the construction, services and local government Seta administrators, respectively.
Nkoane is a former municipal manager at the ANC-governed Emfuleni local municipality in Gauteng. The DA said he is implicated in a forensic report that details the mismanagement of R872m in the municipality.
Masoga, a former ANC Limpopo MEC and deputy speaker, was allegedly implicated in a forensic report for backdating a communications contract worth R4.4m as CEO of the Musina-Makhado special economic zone. This was seen to justify unjustified payments made to communications company Mahuma Group.
Mvalo is deputy director-general responsible for skills development in the department of higher education since 2017.
'All 21 Setas have been reporting directly to him for the past eight years. He has failed at stabilising Setas and has no prospect of fixing anything,' the DA said.
