still cannot be trusted<\/a> even though her scandals broke out over a decade ago.<\/p>\n\u201cThe DA demands that upon her coming into office, a lifestyle audit must immediately be conducted. This will provide a baseline upon which her ministerial tenure may be measured.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere is no reason or evidence to show that she will not do again what she did before, and to fiercely protect taxpayer money from Pule\u2019s grasp, there must be a baseline audit that shows her current lifestyle, assets and finances,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
\u201cDina Pule is utterly unfit to be a minister in Cabinet, based on her track record of unethical conduct, betraying her oath of office as minister, bringing Parliament into disrepute, misleading Parliament, maladministration, criminal investigations, improper benefits to her boyfriend, and R10-million in unlawful payments.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe most serious part of her track record is that a scheme was devised and implemented for her boyfriend to benefit unlawfully from taxpayer money, to the tune of R6 million transferred into his own bank account,\u201d said Sharif.<\/p>\n
Protecting social development beneficiaries<\/p>\n
She emphasised that the responsibilities Pule now holds are critical to the country and need a credible person to be in charge.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe DA will not relent on fighting for the beneficiaries of social assistance, who deserve a minister of impeccable credentials, not a minister who was fired by Jacob Zuma for being so bad that even he could not tolerate her any longer.<\/p>\n
\u201cPresident Ramaphosa\u2019s selection of Dina Pule as the new minister of social development has been rejected by the DA, and we will not relent until there is accountability,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The ANC says it is a party that believes in redemption. While ANC secretary-general Fikile Mbalula believes that…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":319914,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[52],"tags":[4484,9470,1459,50206,131],"class_list":["post-319913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-south-africa","tag-african-national-congress-anc","tag-democratic-alliance-da","tag-editors-choice","tag-social-development","tag-south-africa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@africa\/116877212018523222","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319913","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=319913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319913\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/319914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}