EFF should ‘learn to read for meaning’ -Steenhuisen on qualification deviations

This is not Steenhuisen's first controversy surrounding staff appointments.

This is not Steenhuisen's first controversy surrounding staff appointments.Minister of Agriculture and Democratic Alliance leader John Steenhuisen, has found himself at the centre of a heated controversy surrounding staff appointments in his office.

“The EFF will be referring the uneducated Minister of Agriculture John Steenhuisen to Parliament’s Ethics Committee for lying about appointing unqualified staff in his office,” said the EFF on a social media post. “There is no deviation and there are no staff appointed to my office who do not possess the required qualifications,” Steenhuisen emphasised.According to a parliamentary response from the Department of Public Service and Administration , Steenhuisen made four requests to deviate from the Public Service Act to appoint candidates who do not meet the minimum requirements for specified ministerial positions.

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