Thank you Deputy Chairperson, Minister, thank you for that very detailed response; I am a former Standing Committee on Public Accounts, Scopa, member and I appreciate that level of detail. I rise to help you today, Minister. Your current director-general, Adv Sam Vukela, is a man with a chequered past. He engineered the irregular and possibly criminal expenditure of hundreds of millions of rands with the SAPS lease deal in Pretoria and with Nkandla in 2013. He was dismissed and reinstated after a dodgy arbitration deal and was paid R2 million for his trouble.
A year ago, your predecessor, hon Nxesi asked President Ramaphosa to remove him as director-general, DG. The former Minister told Scopa that Vukela was the head of a corruption syndicate in your department and would return Public Works to the days before Nkandla.
Minister, when will you remind the President to stop the bleeding and dismiss Vukela, once and for all?