DA: Dump Dina

NEWSWATCH: The DA and opposition parties reckon communications minister Dina Pule is not interested in her job, incompetent, and should go, reports BD Live. Meanwhile, Zuma has approved the SABC interim board, reports Mail & Guardian.

By Rod Baker

9 Apr 2013

Dina Pule... The Democratic Alliance recks she's not interested in her job. (Image: GCIS)

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BD Live: Pule 'not interested' in her job, says DA... Over the weekend it was reported that our minister of communications had not at that stage communicated answers to even one of 29 questions posed to her so far this year. Apparently she broke the habit yesterday and managed to answer a single question from Cope MP Juli Kilian.
That still leaves the rest unanswered... Surely she has had time to answer at least some of them, so is it that she doesn't have answers? Reckons they might embarrass her? Or are her critics correct in saying she just doesn't care and compounds that with incompetence?
Mail & Guardian: Zuma approves interim SABC board... And we're off again. The interim board will last no more than 6 months, and in that time, candidates for a new board will be interviewed and selected.
That begs the question - but I am asking anyone out there other than Dina... Is there any chance at all that cadre deployment will be relegated to File 13 and that all of the members of the new board will be selected strictly on the basis of actually knowing something... anything about the business of running a broadcaster successfully? If so, that would be great.
And if they then ensure that all senior posts are filled by individuals who have matric, at least, that would be nice.

Rod Baker

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