The wife of Swaziland Prime
Minister Barnabas Dlamini has been promoted to headteacher amid accusations of
unfairness.
It is the second time in
recent months a family member of the Prime Minister has been embroiled in allegations
of nepotism.
The promotion of Gugu Precious
Simelane, 55, who married the 75-year-old PM five months ago, was made against
the Teaching Service Regulations of 1983, the Times Sunday reported (8 April 2018).
Simelane was deputy head at
Ngwenya Central Primary School when she was promoted to be its headteacher. She had been at the school since January 2018.
The Times reported she filled a vacant post that had not been
advertised and no other candidates were interviewed.
Teaching Service Commission
Executive Secretary Mduduzi Nkambule confirmed that the post was never
advertised.
The Times reported Nkambule saying, ‘There was no need to advertise the
vacant post at Ngwenya Central Primary.’ This was, Nkambule said, because
Simelane had already been previously interviewed for the position of headteacher
sometime last year at another school.
This was not the first time
the Prime Minister has been embroiled in controversy over suspected nepotism.
In August 2017 there was controversy when his son Muziwandile Dlamini was made the General Manager
Finance of the parastatal Swaziland Post and Telecommunications Corporation
(SPTC).
The Times Sunday reported at the time
internal
employment policies had been ‘flouted’ and the vacant post was not advertised
externally.
It reported, ‘It was revealed that the hiring processes as stipulated by
the public enterprises (control and monitoring) Act, 1989 were deliberately
ignored by SPTC management.’
The PM is not the only
senior figure in Swaziland under the spotlight for suspected nepotism.
In
February 2018 it was reported that Nothando Ntshangase, aged 31, the wife
to Swaziland’s Correctional Services Commissioner General Mzuthini Ntshangase, was promoted in secret from superintendent to senior
superintendent, and is believed to be the youngest senior superintendent in the
kingdom.
See also
ANGER OVER PRISON SERVICE PROMOTIONS
TRUE LIFE OF SWAZI PRIME MINISTER
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