The DA welcomes Minister of Public Enterprise, Lynne Brown’s, intention to take disciplinary action against embattled Transnet board member, Ellen Tshabalala, over her failure to produce evidence of her academic qualifications.

Reports suggest that the Minister intends to suspend Ms. Tshabalala from the Transnet board after she failed to produce her qualifications.

This followed allegations that Ms. Tshabalala lied about her qualifications when she submitted her application to the SABC in July last year – the same qualifications she claimed to have when admitted to the board of Transnet in 2011.

Ms. Tshabalala’s curriculum vitae claims she is in possession of a B.Com degree and a diploma in labour relations from UNISA, qualifications which the institution claims to have no record of.

Yesterday, Parliament’s Communications Committee voted to suspend Ms. Tshabalala’s from the SABC, pending the outcome of an inquiry into her qualifications.

Minister Brown is quoted as having said that Tshabalala “responded by asking me to allow her to present her qualifications. To date, I have not received it and will have to release her from Transnet”.

Minister Brown must now act to release Tshabalala from the Transnet board as well.

Issued by the DA