Former advisor tells Zondo commission the removal of former GCIS CEO Themba Maseko 'was an instruction'
14 January 2020
Former adviser to the late minister in the Presidency Collins Chabane has told the commission of inquiry into state capture that the removal of former Government Communication and Information System (GCIS) CEO Themba Maseko was "an instruction".
"I heard about this a week after the removal of Themba (Maseko). I asked minister Chabane why he did it and he said he was instructed and I shrugged and said: 'Oh okay'. I never followed up as to by whom and why," Ronald Shingange said on Tuesday at the commission's hearings in Parktown, Johannesburg.
"My understanding is that there is only one person who could instruct him and that was the president," he added.
Shingange added that the removal of Maseko in 2010 happened after a new administration took over, therefore he did not find it strange for director generals to be moved from one department to another.