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 taken a strong stance against the appointment of Dina Pule as the newly sworn-in Minister of Social Development, calling for a lifestyle audit and indicating plans to lodge an ethics complaint against her.
Pule was previously removed from Cabinet in 2013 after Parliament’s Ethics Committee and the Public Protector found that, as Communications Minister, she breached the code of conduct by failing to disclose a relationship that led to 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.
