Public Works and Infrastructure Minister Dean Macpherson says he feels vindicated after an investigation found him not guilty of breaching the Executive Ethics Code.<\/p>\n
The investigation stems from a complaint lodged by the EFF, which accused him of acting improperly when he contacted an Independent Development Trust (IDT) employee, urging him to address delayed payments to a company contracted by the IDT.<\/p>\n
The EFF said MacPherson had improperly bypassed IDT governance structures and suggested possible collusion with the service provider.<\/p>\n
But the Public Protector found that Macpherson complied with Treasury regulations regarding payment to service providers and that he acted within his role as shareholder representative of the IDT.<\/p>\n
“The Public Protectors’ report vindicates my actions to stabilise and reform the IDT so that it can fulfill its mandate of delivering social infrastructure to communities across South Africa. As I said when these complaints first emerged, I will not be deterred from restoring good governance and accountability within the Department of Public Works and its entities.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Public Works and Infrastructure Minister Dean Macpherson says he feels vindicated after an investigation found him not guilty…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21565,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[397,398,403,400,399,401,96,402,406,405,404,131],"class_list":{"0":"post-21564","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-south-africa","8":"tag-ewn","9":"tag-ewn-news","10":"tag-ewn-south-africa","11":"tag-eye-witness-news","12":"tag-eyewitness-news","13":"tag-latest-news","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-news-today","16":"tag-prime-media-plus","17":"tag-primedia-plus","18":"tag-primedia","19":"tag-south-africa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21564\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}