Communications Minister Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri will comply with a court ruling allowing Post Office boss Khutso Mampeule access to a report into governance problems, her department said on Saturday.
The Pretoria High Court ruled on Friday that Mampeule was entitled to receive a copy of the report, a successful first legal round in his battle to keep his job.
”… the Minister will provide access to the full report to enable Mr Mampeule to make representations with regard to the proposed resolution to be considered at the special shareholder’s meeting regarding his removal as director of the [Post Office] board,” Matsepe-Cassaburi’s spokesperson, Albi Modise, said in a statement.
The report was compiled by an auditing firm after the minister suspended Mampeule for allegedly ”undermining the authority of the board”.
She received the report in March, after which she told the Post Office board that she intended removing Khutso Mampeule as a director. The board would then have to decide on Mampeule’s position as CEO.
She scheduled a stakeholders meeting for this coming Monday to discuss her proposal. The minister represents the government, which is the sole shareholder in the Post Office.
Mampeule asked for the full report to prepare for the meeting, but was denied it by Matsepe-Casaburri, who said it was ”confidential”.
He made an urgent application to the Pretoria High Court, asking that he be given the full report, and also sufficient time to prepare for the meeting.
Judge Chris Botha on Friday ordered the minister to give a copy of the report to Mampeule.
Modise said Monday’s board meeting would be re-scheduled to a date after Mampeule had been given access to the report. — Sapa