Question NW2039 to the Minister of Telecommunications and Postal Services
18 October 2016 - NW2039
Steenkamp, Ms J to ask the Minister of Telecommunications and Postal Services
What formal qualifications does each of his department’s (a)(i) Chief Financial Officers and/or (ii) acting Chief Financial Officers and (b)(i) Directors-General and/or (ii) acting Directors-General possess?
Reply:
I have been advised by the Department as follows:-
(a)(i) CFO has the following qualifications and experience
Senior Certificate, Extracurricular Higher Diploma with field of study Tax Law
Baccalaureus Commercii with specialisation in Accounting Science and Honours Bachelor of Accounting Science. She has vast experience in a financial field as she worked as a CFO in the Department of Police, Roads and Transport in the Free State Province from 2013 to 2015
(ii) N/A
(b)(i) The post of Director General is currently vacant and we are in a process of finalising the appointment. The Acting Director General has Senior Certificate, incomplete BSc Engineering which was disrupted because of apartheid activities. However he has a vast experience in ICT and Broadcasting. He was appointed as DDG in 1999-2005 in the former department of Communications. He was reappointed as a special advisor at a DDG level since 2013.