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A legal battle is brewing between the Mpumalanga provincial government and dozens of people who were named as beneficiaries of a learnership programme.
The provincial department of community safety, security & liaison has applied for a court order to have 97 students who were initially named as beneficiaries of the traffic department s learnership programme removed from the project.
In February, premier Refilwe Mtshweni-Tsipane said preliminary investigations into the 2021 learnership programme suggested that the process was flawed.
The traffic officer trainee saga, which began in January, finally has a possible breakthrough.
The head of the Department of Community Safety, Security and Liaison, Busisiwe Nkuna, has accepted her suspension for not having removed 125 candidates from the Mpumalanga Traffic College in Bushbuckridge in March, as she was instructed to do.
Premier Refilwe Mtshweni-Tsipane sent Nkuna the letter of suspension on March 25.
The department is set to investigate the appointment of the 125 trainee traffic officer, which the premier labelled a “flawed” process.
On March 26, Nkuna wrote a letter to Mtshweni-Tsipane in which she accepted her suspension and welcomed the investigation into the appointment process of the trainees at the college.
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She promised to investigate the whole intake.
It was found that all recruits’ files checked, as per the attached enrolment list, are complying with all the entry requirements for the basic traffic officers course.
Makhosini Msibi
Mpumalanga residents complained that the department’s officials appointed their relatives and individuals who did not qualify as they did not have matric certificates and drivers’ licences.
The RTMC has, however, poured cold water on this controversy by ruling that the process was legitimate.
According to correspondence, its CEO Makhosini Msibi sent to Nkuna on February 11, all recruits’ files that were checked complied with the entry requirements to the basic traffic officers course.