DA calls for De Lille to be fired following damning SIU report into Beitbridge saga
31 August 2020
The Democratic Alliance (DA) calls on President Cyril Ramaphosa to do the right thing and fire the Minister of Public Works and Administration, Patricia De Lille for her role in the erection of the R37 million Beitbridge Border ‘washing line’.
This comes in the wake of the report by the Special Investigative Unit (SIU) which established that the Minister erred when she issued an emergency directive on the fence to the Director-General of the Department of Public Works and Infrastructure (DPWI) on 16 March 2020 in which she instructed that the:
Project Team meet with the Contractor by no later than 18 March 2020 to finalise the arrangements for the project;
The Contractor be appointed by no later than 20 March 2020;