South Africa’s animal vaccine agency said staff fled to avoid blame, but its CEO had in fact paid them to leave
The board of the Onderstepoort Biological Products , the state’s animal vaccine manufacturer, has been caught in a lie after claiming that officials who left its employ were running from accountability.
Internal OBP documents, including board sub-committee minutes, show that in 2019 the company’s former secretary Zodwa Mobeng, was paid R1.39-million to leave, while the former chief financial officer, Matsobane Gololo, and former corporate services executive, Mpho Rammutle, were paid more than R600 000 and R300 000 respectively.
“One of the board members remarked that they were under the impression that there were answerable cases against the three and that fruitless expenditure blamed on them could be replaced. They did not know that they were paid to go, and there were no cases against them,” said an OBP insider with direct knowledge of the meeting.
Dungu, originally from the Democratic Republic of Congo, did not qualify for requirements of chapter five of the Minimum Information Security Standard, which states that to qualify for a top security clearance an immigrant must have been a resident in South Africa for 20 years, with 15 of those years spent as a citizen.
Was responsible for causing the OBP to pay more than R100 000 to Kevin Govindsamy for one day’s work at OBP because he instructed that Govindsamy be hired without probity checks being completed. Govindsamy did not disclose that he had been fired from his previous job at Amatola Water in the Eastern Cape for misconduct. His past was apparently revealed by an executive who googled his name after he was introduced on his first day.
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