DA calls on Minister Sisulu to release findings of a report

Mluleki Mrwebi
26 September 2013

The Public Service Commission has missed the deadline to publicise its findings of an investigation into the appointment of former Fisheries Deputy Director-General, Greta Apelgren-Narkedien, by the Agriculture Minister, Tina Joemat-Pettersson.

DA Shadow Deputy Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Pieter van Dalen said The failure to meet the deadline raises the suspicion that either the PSC or the Minister of Public Service Lindiwe Sisulu, and Administration may be protecting Joemat-Pettersson as a result of the damning findings of the investigation.

Van Dalen said the DA has already written to the PSC requesting reasons for the delay, to which we have not received a definitive answer.

Apelgren-Narkedien was appointed as the DD-G for the Fisheries Department in December 2012.  In March 2013 she admitted during an interview on the television programme Carte Blanche, that no formal procedures were followed when she was appointed.

He added that the DA then wrote to the PSC in April 2013 to request that it investigate the procedures around Apelgren-Narkedien’s appointment. The PSC agreed to investigate in June 2013.