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SowetanLive reports that the National Arts Council (NAC) has suspended its CEO Rosemary Mangope and CFO Clifton Changfoot pending an investigation.
The two were suspended on Sunday by the newly elected council in relation to the management of the Presidential Employment Stimulus Programme (PESP). The council has appointed Julie Diphofa, who has been a senior official at the NAC for over 20 years, as the acting CEO and Reshma Bhoola as the acting CFO. According to a council statement, the decision followed robust engagement with management over the past weeks culminating in the council meeting of Friday, which left the council seriously dissatisfied with the progress on the rollout of the PESP. “The NAC is entrusted with the responsibility to administer the PESP on behalf of the department of sport, arts and culture. The NAC was allocated R300m to be disbursed through two funding streams, at R100 million and R200 million for stream one and stream two respectively. Stream one was intended to enable job retention, while stream two was for work opportunities within the arts, culture and heritage sector. The council took these decisive steps in the interest of service delivery as it relates to the PESP meant to support hundreds of arts, culture and heritage practitioners,” the statement noted. The council affirmed its commitment “to completing this process as soon as possible and to ensure that the PESP funds reach all the deserving and successful applicants so that projects that will either sustain or create jobs are not hindered in any way.”
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Patience Bambalele at SowetanLive
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