Gore – ‘hiring of Msimang sends wrong message to public service employees’
03-05-2007. ‘While the Minister of Home Affairs says her new Director-General, Mavuso Msimang, “has a reputation as a hands-on manager”, the Independent Democrats believes this is a most unfortunate description,’ says Vincent Gore, the ID spokesperson on the department.
‘While the Minister of Home Affairs
says her new Director-General, Mavuso Msimang, “has a reputation as a
hands-on manager”, the Independent Democrats believes this is a most
unfortunate description,’ says Vincent Gore, the ID spokesperson on the
department.
The hiring process could have been put on hold until the outcome
of the case against Msimang, Gore says. ‘Although the ID
respects the fact that the new Director-General is innocent until
proven guilty, this was a bad call on the part of Minister Nosiviwe
Mapisa-Nqakula,’ says Gore. ‘We will not know the truth about
his innocence or his guilt until the outcome of the case, but whether
we like it or not, as public figures we should not have smears on our
names.’ ‘The Minister should think more carefully about who she
hires for a position in a department that can ill afford to have its
reputation tainted any further,’ Gore says. ‘This also sends out the wrong message to public service employees, both men and women.’ Released by ID MP Vincent Gore – 083 631 6681
