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Public Protector Encourages Workplace Diversity

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On Wednesday afternoon, the Public Protector, Advocate Thuli Madonsela, inspired employees of General Motors South Africa (GMSA) when she addressed them on the role of women in the workplace at the GMSA Struandale plant. Madonsela was the guest speaker at the one year anniversary celebrations of the GMSA Women's Council. GMSA proudly looked back on the activities undertaken by the Women's Council a year after launching the initiative. The role of the Women's Council, which is a global GM … [Read more...] about Public Protector Encourages Workplace Diversity

Large-scale municipal fraud report handed to Public Protector

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The Vice Chairman of the AfriForum branch in Port Elizabeth, Kobus Gerber and the General Advisor of Community Structures at the civil rights organisation, Pieter Rautenbach in partnership with the Nelson Mandela Bay Taxpayers' Association submitted a report containing information regarding large-scale fraud in the Nelson Mandela Bay Metropolitan Municipality to Public Protector, Adv Thuli Madonsela. The report stems from the R2 billion which was allocated to a bus transport system for the … [Read more...] about Large-scale municipal fraud report handed to Public Protector

Equality and Access to the Public Protector

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Dear Editor On Women's Day, 9 August 2012, the Eastern Cape Democratic Alliance Women's Network (DAWN) celebrated women's rights-based resistance to the extension of racist and gendered legislation in 1956 with the Public Protector, Advocate Thuli Madonsela. Our constitutional democracy with mechanisms for equality, redress and reconciliation provides for an enabling environment for women. All South African women have the vote and equal citizenship yet many are oppressed by material … [Read more...] about Equality and Access to the Public Protector

Public Protector confirms investigation into EC workbook shortages

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Public Protector Thuli Madonsela has confirmed that she will investigate the chronic shortages of workbooks at schools in the Eastern Cape. The DA laid a complaint last week due to workbook shortages identified by school visits and monitoring in the Port Elizabeth and Queenstown districts. We trust that the Public Protector's investigation will get to the bottom of why children in the Eastern Cape still do not have workbooks one month into the third term of the year. The majority of … [Read more...] about Public Protector confirms investigation into EC workbook shortages

Thuli Madonsela on the Feminisation of Unemployment, Violence and Poverty

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DAWN (The Democratic Alliance Women's Network) has invited the Public Protector, Advocate Thuli Madonsela, to address a provincial rally at 11:00 today in the Pieter Rademeyer Hall in Algoa Park. The Public Protector will reply to DAWN Provincial Chairperson, Celeste Barker's speech with an address on "Constitutional and Other Mechanisms to Redress the Feminisation of Unemployment, Violence and Poverty in our Province." All South African women have the vote and equal citizenship yet are … [Read more...] about Thuli Madonsela on the Feminisation of Unemployment, Violence and Poverty

Public Protector, Thuli Madonsela, to speak at NMMU

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South African public protector Advocate Thuli Madonsela will deliver the Griffiths and Victoria Mxenge Memorial Lecture at Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University (NMMU) later this month. The lecture is held annually by the Faculty of Law to honour the memory of Victoria and Griffiths Mxenge and the important roles they played in the struggle to liberate South Africans from the shackles of apartheid. Since taking office in October 2009, Madonsela had been determined in tackling official … [Read more...] about Public Protector, Thuli Madonsela, to speak at NMMU

Spotlight on East Cape Housing Corruption Claims

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The Office of the Public Protector says it will look into allegations of corruption against the Eastern Cape's Human Settlements Department. Public Protector Thuli Madonsela will look into allegations at the department, as well as two municipalities and a public hospital. This follows claims made at a community outreach meeting in Bisho on Friday, where it was made known that R28 million had been "stolen" from municipal coffers. According to the Public Protector's Office, a member of … [Read more...] about Spotlight on East Cape Housing Corruption Claims

Threats to Public Protector Highlight Flaws in Protection of Information Bill

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The FW de Klerk Foundation is deeply concerned by reports that appeared in the media on 6 July that Adv Thuli Madonsela, the Public Protector, was about to be arrested on fraud charges. Ministers and senior officials immediately denied the reports. The Minister of Justice, Mr Jeff Radebe, said that an internal investigation in 2007 relating to contracts that Madonsela's company, Waweth Resources CC, had with the Department of Justice, had found that she had not violated any laws. Radebe denied … [Read more...] about Threats to Public Protector Highlight Flaws in Protection of Information Bill

Become a Service Delivery Failure Impimpi

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The Public Protector is calling on civil society to report service delivery failures as well as improper conduct by organs of state. Speaking at the launch of the social justice NGO Khaya College's Setsi sa Mosadi in Johannesburg on Saturday, Advocate Thuli Madonsela emphasised that her office does not only focus on matters involving high ranking government officials. "You probably think we investigate corruption cases only because of recent events. The truth is 90 percent of the cases we … [Read more...] about Become a Service Delivery Failure Impimpi