The ANC supports Dina Pule’s appointment to Cabinet, with Secretary-General Fikile Mbalula saying the party believes she has shown remorse, undergone correction, and is not an unrepentant cadre.
The DA has not taken the appointment of Dina Pule, the newly sworn-in Minister of Social Development, lightly, with the party not only calling for a lifestyle audit, but also indicating that it will be lodging an ethics complaint against her.
Pule was removed from Cabinet in 2013 after Parliament’s Ethics Committee and the Public Protector found she had, as Communications minister, breached the code of conduct, including failing to disclose a relationship that resulted in improper benefits linked to her department.
President Cyril Ramaphosa announced Pule’s appointment as the new Social Development minister as part of his Cabinet reshuffle last Tuesday.
Pule is replacing controversial Sisisi Tolashe, whom Ramaphosa fired from the same department on May 14 for various unethical behaviour, including failure to disclose two luxury cars donated to the ANC Women's League, which were allegedly registered in her children's names.
