Madikizela speaks out following qualification scandal

The Western Cape’s suspended Transport and Public Roads MEC Bonginkosi Madikizela has broken his silence, within the wake of the saga surrounding his qualifications. Madikizela change into as soon as suspended by Premier Alan Winde following revelations that he misrepresented his BCom degree.

It change into as soon as learnt on Wednesday that Madikizela hadn’t accomplished his qualification, opposite to what’s acknowledged in his bio, on the provincial authorities’s web situation. He has been suspended for a period of 14 days, pending an investigation into the topic.

The most contemporary Democratic Alliance (DA) chief has apologised, but claims his suspension has nothing to realize with his qualifications – but that he’s being centered due to his ambitions to turn out to be Cape Town mayor.

“We must be frank here, this so-called ‘expose’ has nothing to realize with a noble act to merely the sinful, it has everything to realize with (the) Cape Town mayorship contest. The theory that of getting any individual they’ll’t regulate or explore after their passion tremulous them. This is what I am going by procedure of every time I contest for a job within the birthday celebration or in authorities,” Madikizela acknowledged in a Facebook post on Saturday, 17 April 2021.

Bonginkosi Madikizela willing to accept whatever the punishment

Bonginkosi Madikizela has admitted he might perchance presumably need been at fault for the total qualification saga and acknowledged he change into as soon as ready to face the penalties.

“I will humble myself, enable the job to unfold and accept the punishment which I am hoping this can fit the crime. As sinful as this change into as soon as, I didn’t fake to be a physician and performed surgeries that establish contributors’s lives in pain, or an engineer that constructed bridges that might perchance collapse and cancel contributors,” Madikizela acknowledged.

“A level change into as soon as by no procedure a requirement within the total positions I’ve occupied earlier than and now, this by no procedure benefited me in any manner. I also hope contributors will not apply double standards, what’s done on the left must even be carried out on the final be conscious”

Western Cape Transport and Public Roads MEC Bonginkosi Madikizela

Madikizela will seem earlier than the DA’s Federal Appropriate Commission.

“The affect will must peaceful be obvious by the Federal Appropriate Commission within the case of the birthday celebration itself. In the case of Mr Madikizela’s role within the provincial cupboard, that is within the hands of the premier and his role as provincial chief is within the hands of the Provincial Govt Committee taking advice from the federal upright commission, which is ready to be coming in due direction,” acknowledged the birthday celebration’s federal council chair Helen Zille.

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