Home Affairs exec 'too black'

2006-07-28 14:31

Cape Town - Home Affairs Minister Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula has conceded that her department's top management team, comprising solely of "Africans", was not representative of South African society.

"The top management of the department... does not currently correspond with the Employment Equity Act," she said in a written reply to a parliamentary question from the Freedom Front Plus.

Mapisa-Nqakula said two of the five "African" deputy directors-general were women. This "confirms that steps have been taken to address gender equality".

"The department... is busy at the moment to review its Employment Equity Plan and targets set in line with the Employment Equity Act," she said.

FF Plus MPs had asked the minister why only black people had been appointed to the department's top management positions, and what steps were being taken towards representivity.

- SAPA