Karabo Mbele, the acting chief executive of the Gauteng Gambling Board, has denied that governance at the agency has collapsed in the wake of MEC Tasneem Motara’s decision to dissolve its board.
“If anything,” Mbele said, “there should be better governance than there was before, because we are treading carefully, obviously wanting to correct ills of the past. By the way, we are not the first institution in government, in Gauteng or nationally, to run without a board.”National Education, Health and Allied Workers UnionNehawu laid a complaint with the public protector against the board last August, alleging maladministration, dishonesty and improper dealing with respect to public money.
“This is not the first time that the GGB has attended the Durban July event or similar events as part of its regulatory responsibilities. All other provincial gambling boards have also attended this or similar events,” Marimuthu reportedly told the publication. Motara put the allegations contained in the Nehawu complaint to Platt in a letter dated 29 January and instructed the board to investigate them. The MEC instructed that these investigations should be completed within three months.
When Mbele was appointed, she went about correcting some of the issues identified by Motara, who had been in the MEC position since October 2022. , Mbele suspended the gambling board’s senior human resources manager, Zandile Gumede, its acting chief operating officer, Lucky Lukhwareni, and Marimuthu, who was the senior manager for gaming control. The precautionary suspensions were enacted pending investigations.
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