Allegations of R4m waste irk gender activist

FINGERED: Former gender boss Nomboniso Gasa

Gender activist Nomboniso Gasa is up in arms over a damning public protector report accusing her of maladministration and mismanagement. 

The report relates to her tenure as head of the Commission on Gender Equality (CGE), and accuses her of "fruitless and wasteful" spending of R4-million.
This was for a contract awarded to a consultancy owned by political analyst Mohau Pheko to help turn around the under-performing Chapter 9 institution.
An angry and "shocked" Gasa said this week that public protector Thuli Madonsela's report, now before parliament, was "disturbing" and "unsubstantiated". She was never given an opportunity to give her side of the story.
Madonsela reported that Gasa's commissioning of an organisation diagnosis process at the commission was a waste of taxpayers' money as it did not yield the desired results. She called on the national Treasury to investigate and act against those involved.
But Gasa says Madonsela's report "peddles rumours of the most malicious kind, without any substance or evidence being given.
"It is disappointing that an esteemed office which is supposed to protect the public actually publishes a report of this nature without due regard to the harm that may be caused," said Gasa.

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